Disappointed but not surprised, says a Barclays PSC, preparing to be part of the bank’s contractor exodus.
10th October, 2019 | Comment
All eyes are on IR35 from 2020, but it’s actually the Agency Legislation which could see contractors’ staple payments reclassified.
9th October, 2019 | Comment
‘Deadlock’ over the UK’s EU departure has helped lift growth in IT contractor demand out of the doldrums.
8th October, 2019 | Contracting News
New official guidance lets agencies and umbrellas finalise forms for April 2020.
MPs ask the head reviewer of the tax to tell HMT of the number of lives it’s really taken.
7th October, 2019 | Contracting News
Two unflattering reports of the government’s housing showpiece could consign it for early demolition at Budget 2019.
7th October, 2019 | Comment
Minister defends keeping the potentially ‘inappropriate,’ suicide-inducing tax in force.
4th October, 2019 | Contracting News
Locum who lost enlists 'vastly experienced' Michael Paulin, but needs your help to fund fighting HMRC.
3rd October, 2019 | IR35 News
The number of clients ‘ceasing and desisting’ PSCs doubles in a day from three to six. And ‘more will follow.’
2nd October, 2019 | IR35 News
Ex-inspector says the first shot against clients calling time on PSCs was fired when the Revenue wrote to the 1,500.
It involves a giant of news, but this FTT case’s deciders have been massively underreported. Until now.
1st October, 2019 | Comment
Unheeded warning to HMRC, ministers and the chancellor has the most tragic of consequences.
30th September, 2019 | Contracting News
Between now and Monday, many still have an unenviable decision to make.
27th September, 2019 | Comment
Evidence of HMRC bullying or blundering with dates is sought, for Sir Amyas’ eyes only.
26th September, 2019 | Contracting News
As April 2020 nears, recruiters are reluctant to advertise your engager as exempt (even if they are).
25th September, 2019 | IR35 News
HMRC waives penalties for the third who failed to file, but another deadline falls this Thursday.
24th September, 2019 | Money News
The 2019 Loan Charge Review extends the deadline for meeting to October 14th.
23rd September, 2019 | Contracting News
New chancellor rumoured to want his first autumn Budget about a month from now.
Judges just about go against Gosling, Willcox and Eades -- the BBC’s faces of forced limited company usage.
20th September, 2019 | IR35 News
IPSE: Clouds of uncertainty aren’t shifting, and just one of them could bring the house down.
19th September, 2019 | Contracting News
Contractors and their families are among those who can now have their say to Sir Amyas Morse.
18th September, 2019 | Contracting News
An emergency order is the only way to stop the loan charge suicide rate doubling, Javid told.
16th September, 2019 | Contracting News
Minister’s review letter that doesn’t initially detail the review raises a ‘frightening’ prospect.
Dead ahead: Contractors, brace yourselves for a surface-level assessment of considerable icebergs.
13th September, 2019 | Comment
Experts, advisers and MPs fear a rerun of the Treasury’s March ‘whitewash.’
12th September, 2019 | Contracting News
It’s practical and proportionate to pause the charge while it’s appropriateness is assessed.
12th September, 2019 | Comment
Not a campaign, and not a sign of things to come, implies the taxman, despite eyeing other pharmas.
11th September, 2019 | IR35 News
Lehman and AWR were the last time growth in the appetite for freelance IT skills was so weak.
10th September, 2019 | Contracting News
The prime minister’s assurance of action is welcomed, but contractors are cautioned over what it doesn’t mean.
9th September, 2019 | Contracting News
To contractors, the country’s finances and even the PM, this retrospective tax could be their undoing.
5th September, 2019 | Comment
View a copy of the letter received by GSK contractors from HMRC regarding their IR35 status.
4th September, 2019 | IR35 News
A simple message to coincide with the Spending Review needs your voice to amplify it.
2nd September, 2019 | Comment
Opening up is the key to unlocking what you need to put your house in order, and your partners’ houses, for April 6th.
29th August, 2019 | Comment
Almost 90% fear HMRC doesn’t ‘get it’; new guidance is ‘woeful’ and advisers say ‘confusion’ will reign.
28th August, 2019 | IR35 News
Why ruining 1,500 contractors’ bank holiday weekends (and potentially their livelihoods), takes more balance than you might think.
28th August, 2019 | Comment
Pay up by the 19th or argue why you’re not caught by IR35, the taxman tells the pharma’s PSCs.
27th August, 2019 | IR35 News
An important cut-off if you’re caught by the charge and are settling looms large -- a week today.
23rd August, 2019 | Comment
Two big off-payroll tax provisions will force firms to play policeman, hot potato and pass the parcel.
22nd August, 2019 | IR35 News
No education package, and no CEST update, may be why ‘cracks are starting to show’.
20th August, 2019 | IR35 News
'It’s highlighting and challenging that’s the main point of writing to Johnson, Javid and Norman.'
19th August, 2019 | Contracting News
‘A small July payment should be treated with suspicion, to avoid a big surprise in 2020.’
16th August, 2019 | Money News
What this website and ten other contractor groups have told the PM and chancellor.
15th August, 2019 | Comment
As an ex-Tory leader admits shame, the incumbent is begged by the bereaved to act.
15th August, 2019 | Contracting News
Sector stalwarts join ContractorUK in pressing the PM and chancellor on their contractor commitments.
13th August, 2019 | Contracting News
Political heavyweight Sir Vince Cable joins the many MPs landing the very same blows on the loan charge.
12th August, 2019 | Contracting News
Having binned both the net migration target and Tier 1’s cap, the government is told Tier 2 salary must be next in its sights.
12th August, 2019 | Job News
Government told resisting a rush job on contractor tax reform would stem labour market uncertainty.
9th August, 2019 | Contracting News
New government disappoints by churning out the ‘same old stuff,’ despite 25,000 fresh objections.
8th August, 2019 | IR35 News
Harvey Nash on how prep for IR35’s revamp means meetings, questions and audits (all involving you).
7th August, 2019 | Comment
Bank to ‘undoubtedly’ keep engaging PSCs, but it still wants 5,000 external techies on-payroll.
6th August, 2019 | Contracting News
PM urged to act sooner rather than later, as August’s and September’s cut-off could claim more lives.
5th August, 2019 | Contracting News
The Insolvency Service’s CET are like a lightning bolt; scary, but unlikely to strike you down.
5th August, 2019 | Comment
Entries have now been sorted, scrutinised and judged by the panel to create impressive shortlists.
31st July, 2019 | Comment
‘Only very valued PSCs will get access to the (toothless, flawed) system; the rest won’t.'
31st July, 2019 | IR35 News
Our new PM is many things, but have you got him pegged as a rate-negotiation model? You should.
30th July, 2019 | Comment
Alert issued over fake clients, and fraudulent ‘contractors’ making off with agencies’ cash.
30th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Ex-Tory leader reminds the current leader about HMT’s ‘unfair, damaging retrospection.’
29th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Government off-payroll rules ‘review’ says 2012’s have been ‘superseded’ by 2017’s.
29th July, 2019 | IR35 News
The contractor sector’s biggest endorsement yet of the PM’s appointments goes to HMT’s new boss.
26th July, 2019 | Contracting News
The case of the doctor who did a commendable job underlines the injustice imposed, and incoming, on others who work independently.
25th July, 2019 | Comment
Time (and volatility) might not be on the new Tory leader’s side, but the hope is he’ll clear the big obstacles.
24th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Mutuality and Substitution save Dr Mantides from an IR35 bill of £30k -- partially.
24th July, 2019 | IR35 News
‘We are analysing your feedback’ really meant ‘We are dismissing if it doesn’t meet our three aims.’
23rd July, 2019 | Comment
When being wise after the event still lands an airline the biggest fine yet.
Minister deluged with personal testimony after saying he welcomes being corrected by evidence.
22nd July, 2019 | Contracting News
BT, BAE, Centrica, Fujitsu and Prudential are removed for Prompt Payment Code flouting.
19th July, 2019 | Money News
Not enshrining the tool hasn’t taken the heat out of how ‘useless’ version 2 is expected to be.
18th July, 2019 | IR35 News
Come 2020, it looks as if a channel open for contractors to independently contest bad IR35 decisions will close.
18th July, 2019 | Comment
Loan Charge APPG tells peers that Jesse Norman’s pledge doesn’t mean what it sounds like.
17th July, 2019 | Contracting News
A help to PSCs? A trigger for more blanketing? Or just more complexity? Experts think it all.
16th July, 2019 | IR35 News
A great way to learn and find work excludes almost 1milllion agency contractors, government told.
16th July, 2019 | Contracting News
No duty on engagers to notify exempt status means PSC won’t know if IR35 is in play or not.
15th July, 2019 | IR35 News
Few curveballs but no delay, as the biggest shake-up to contracting is going ahead from next April.
11th July, 2019 | IR35 News
Radio sports writer scores a narrow win over HMRC’s hattrick of status arguments.
This full admission is welcome, says WTT; less so what it says about HMRC.
11th July, 2019 | Contracting News
The three reasons clients give for not sorting your IR35 status will go as Finance Bill arrives tomorrow.
10th July, 2019 | Comment
Thompson hit for internally using a pursuit animal image, even though contractors have died from being chased.
10th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Robotic or just unsympathetic? Contractors’ tax advisers try to work out HMRC granting much less wriggle room.
9th July, 2019 | Money News
Full-timer scarcity reduced too, but ‘hiring right’ is tech start-ups’ biggest obstacle.
9th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Counting down to disclosure needs some clarity, as HMRC has brought only opaqueness.
8th July, 2019 | Comment
Slight uptick since May’s low, but a ‘cautious approach’ by hirers looks set for the summer.
8th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Bank rejects insider’s claims, but agrees it won’t cease and desist limited company hires.
5th July, 2019 | IR35 News
Despite new replies on IR35 not adding much, one contractor is taking a stand -- alongside 12,000 others.
4th July, 2019 | IR35 News
Delaying April’s rules is the only way to avert more Morgan Stanleys, policy-makers told.
4th July, 2019 | Contracting News
Chancellor caught saying ‘well done’ after new minister’s ‘callous’ performance.
3rd July, 2019 | Contracting News
A 25% siphon from your pay adds up to fraud, and may build the fraudster a buffer.
3rd July, 2019 | Comment
Britons contracting in Europe said to be tempted, despite HMRC’s success.
2nd July, 2019 | Contracting News
Fines for not paying you are, well; fine, but recovery costs are really where reform could come into its own.
2nd July, 2019 | Comment
Bank is the first big client to explore a ‘viable’ way to maintain PSC usage post-2020.
1st July, 2019 | IR35 News
Both prime ministerial contenders make commitments to independently probing the disguised remuneration tax.
1st July, 2019 | Contracting News
Round two of rules to implement 2020’s off-payroll tax will begin in two weeks.
28th June, 2019 | IR35 News
And if they become the first of many, day-rate contract work has surely had its day.
27th June, 2019 | Comment
Permits letting migrants work, start-up and move within the UK chalk up their fifth annual rise.
27th June, 2019 | Job News
The domino effect of HSBC’s IR35 plan is underway, as two more clients impose ‘cease and desist’ PSC policies.
26th June, 2019 | IR35 News
Agents are among those who want it all now. Don’t disappoint; do it in near-real time.
26th June, 2019 | Comment
Nine contractor outfits join this website in calling our next PM to nullify both the Loan Charge and IR35 reform.
25th June, 2019 | Contracting News
What your advisers, lobbyists and publications are today telling our country’s next prime minister.
25th June, 2019 | Comment
Better late than never? Officials table penalties as a new, overdue weapon in Paul Uppal’s armoury.
24th June, 2019 | Money News
Treasury minister’s take on new stats is at odds with multiple charges that they don’t stack up.
24th June, 2019 | Contracting News
The ins and outs of CGT, including what’s new from April 2020.
21st June, 2019 | Comment
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