All News

Updating us at least quarterly will not be akin to four tax returns a year, claims HMRC.

Your invitation to help four sectors make the case to keep travel and subsistence relief.

HMRC updates the list of laughable claims made for missing the Jan 31 deadline.

New salary threshold would catch 94% of migrants being imported for third-party IT contracts.

Shake off 10 years' worth of dust from your profiles with ContractorUK's free webinar.

Loopholes found in a plan to block one-man 'Ltds' from the Employment Allowance.

What to ask your employer ahead of April’s clampdown on T&S tax relief.

The best agents, advisers, brollies, clients and contractors (among others), are revealed.

Three outcomes that belie the government’s assessment of ‘no economic impact.’  

Growth of temporary IT opportunities surges to the quickest since April.

Taxman says sorry for issuing pay-up front demands, but keeps quiet about refunds.

Tech hubs help take the rate of IT company formation to pre-recession territory. 

Five things set to dominate the PSC contractor market over the next 12 months.

Even a real-world look at T&S restrictions is populated by more questions than answers.  

Contractors’ top-paying clients set for ‘selective and strategic’ IT spending mode.  

We look forward to keeping you up-to-date with all the latest contractor news throughout 2016.

IFA: Use the festive holiday to unwrap a nest egg that’s no longer stuffy or rigid.

Over 76,000 people object at being forced to report to HMRC 'at least' every quarter.

Some liquidating contractors will rethink ahead of a big change to company distribution rules.

Answers sought on why you went 'Ltd;' how much it costs to comply and what you'd change.

Shrewd contractors won't just wait for the shoe(s) to drop.

A 'no surprises' bill reads much better for limited companies than it does for brolly workers.

Ten areas where the Revenue is squaring up to contractors -- now and for the future.

'Sky high' premiums on offer, notably for Cyber Security Crisis Managers.

Labour and Tory MPs team up to take on a 'short-sighted' plan to restrict T&S relief.

Digital marketers are the only contractors who IT agents are struggling to find.

All but two IT contractor skills are pointing in a positive pay direction.

The end of ongoing relief is an extra strain on umbrella contractors' expenses from April.

Seventeen definitive steps to be taken, including forgetting the Freelancer Limited Company.

What IT contractors can’t afford to miss in the chancellor’s AS-Spending Review combo.

Second-home contractors won’t be fans of the chancellor, but they won’t be fazed by him either.

Cap on contracting could be unveiled as early as next month, PSCs told.

Osborne unveils a combined Spending Review and Autumn Statement to 'rebuild Britain.'

No proposal in the AS to cap PSC contracting, but it could still be around the corner.

Any significant relief is 18 months away at very, very best, micro-businesses told.

Today's price cap on IT agency contractors looks perilous for healthcare and its tech talent pool.

Two sources (independent of each other) flesh out a plan to put some PSCs on the payroll.

A 'one-month-then-payroll' clause won’t work where many think IR35 has failed.

All eyes are on new laws, but it’s the 2007 MSC rules that are costing contractors many thousands.   

Cuts to innovation would leave UK in the ‘industrial slow lane,’ chancellor told.

Letter template lets contractors object to the 'rumoured' plan to payroll PSCs after a month.

Overload of information protection developments should put IT contractors on alert in four areas.

Those prophesying disaster for all EBTs aren't doing so based on the latest Rangers case ruling.

Fallout from 'one-month cap' would be economical as well as political, chancellor told.

Ex-government secondee declines to add to conjecture by the Mail and Guardian.

Three straight months of slower growth for IT contractors comes to an end.

Scathing report reveals how the Revenue is failing millions of taxpayers on multiple fronts.

'Control' should be the ONLY choice viable to HMRC.

Most contract professionals think Britain is stronger in (not out of) Europe - survey.

Contract techies at GBM begin doing the same work for less money; less of the time.

Making business simpler and less taxing should top the chancellor's agenda on Nov 25.

Tax body rejects 'SDC' in favour of a reporting requirement on contractors and clients.

Revenue retires its paperwork probes, but firms booked in will still have an inspector call.

Tax relief ban looks even more unfair against freelancers' long list of lingering concerns.

Umbrella boss maps out the contracting landscape in a post-SDC world.

A single measure imposed on HMRC casts you as the low-hanging fruit, multiple times.

Seven months running of self-employment slipping suggests support next month is vital.

Business owners should set out their tax affairs online – CBI.

Recruiters who rule-break with malice will be the focus of BIS’s enforcement teams.

One-man bands will welcome lower prices, says IPSE.

Careless mistakes over relatively small sums may still cost you six months in prison.

Sixth bid to quash 'BN66' fails, so it's now up to property developers and Montpelier.

Attempts by HMRC to spell out supervision, direction or control are 'perfunctory'.

Fewer and fewer freelancers foresee more public IT contracts.

Whispers of another rate cut put the dampeners on an already subdued September. 

Existing remedies for the unpaid hailed as better than new cures.

The upturn is helping stack the odds of small traders paying VAT on time against them.

If 'SDC' bites, the end is nigh for tens of thousands of limited companies.

Even those contractors who can (and want to) pay their APN are beset with cashflow concerns. 

Contractors join celebs in the Revenue's six-figure net where you pay up front.

Findings from ISPE suggest that an anti-late payment 'tsar' is not before time.

Two weeks' forced leave + 10% reduction = contractors almost 20% worse off.

Paying less to HMRC is the bottom line of two reasons to reform dividends.

Business officials want one-man bands to speak up about their issues.

Now's the time for middle ground contractors to stand fast.

Chancellor picks Nov 25 for his first Tory Spending Review and Autumn Statement.

UK's mix of government, finance and IT said to be too strong for Silicon Valley.

Whether it marks a rub or reverting; the living wage will certainly shake things up. 

New EU funds will help keep The University of St Andrews at the forefront of software technology. 

Contracting in France, Italy or Portugal is ‘business as usual,’ despite new rules on temping. 

Revealed: umbrellas are not Adjustment Bureaus with any kind of (status) powers.

Candidates 'taking the summer off' blamed for the biggest cooling in over two years.

Names needed to get the government to reconsider the dividend tax hike.

A few not so Merry Men are compensating the Creditors of Nottingham for wrongful trading.

Contractors' advisers agree the new £5k allowance will operate in a way that wasn't implied.

It can't work any way you try it - so repeal, replace and reposition the liability.

Two accountants who bet they could secretly fiddle clients' tax returns lose to HMRC.

Not investing as long, or as much, is the modus operandi of many a tiny trader. 

EY backs bringing the FLC back to life amid 'uncertain times' for contracting.

More than 6,000 mortgages promised to contract workers under a new tie-up.

Latest count of cash flowing into the exchequer shows the highest numbers ever.

'Huge surprise' in store for company directors on a salary-dividend mix.

To say that half a million Brits are trapped freelancers is an oversimplification -- FCSA.

Thirty-somethings in the capital are putting their millions from IT into super homes.

'Ongoing hike to road and air fares will majorly concern one-man bands.'

Accelerated Payment disputes set to heap more pressure on an already log-jammed system.

Rise in information leakage comes amid a call to send the worst offenders to jail.

Tech consultancies named as the biggest providers of 'deficient' expertise.

Second successive fall in self-employment doesn't bode well for the 2m jobs target.

Deducting his staff's PAYE & NIC only to pocket it himself earns a payroll boss two years.