IR35
IR35 appears in 6 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not IR35's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of IR35 is steady — it appears in 6 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What IR35 coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 7 classified coverage items, one item is 14 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 7 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
6 articles mention IR35 across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 3 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report HMRC was continuing to review its interpretation of IR35.
- report The FCDO reviewed its IR35 determinations and found 243 workers in scope in its 2024-25 annual report.
- Gov.uk still struggling with IT contractor tax rules The Register
- UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidyThe Register
As of 7 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 356,656 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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