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There’s a lot you can do to help, chancellor told, as IT contractor demand-growth plummets at a pace not seen since coronavirus.

Hunt can spare the overburdened tax tribunals a job on Wednesday. If not, he’ll just add to the off-payroll problems storing up for the future.

Aside from a clash over its importance, an off-payroll resources refresh by HMRC signals the framework is here to stay.

A stop on HMRC doubly taxing the contractor sector is gaining momentum, ahead of the chancellor’s statement a week today.

No less than ten accounting bodies have found fault with the Revenue, but the UK’s tax overlord is unlikely to even reply.

An umbrella market devoid of the Single Enforcement Body means it falls to flexible workers to cover themselves.

A general election is too far away for the contractor sector’s hopes and dreams to get realised by the chancellor next Wednesday.

At their most confident since covid, IT ventures are mostly expecting sales to rise, while other companies fall or flounder.

Ten ways to turn UK hiring processes from among the slowest in the developed world to the fastest, globally, are now in front of the chancellor.

Now showing Alpha Republic, Canopaye and Integra Resourcing, the taxman’s blacklist is an official resource which is set to run and run.

Small steps from chancellor Hunt could go a long way to giving enterprising companies the glimmer of hope they deserve.

March 15th might be an opening for HMRC to mend the off-payroll rules, but repeal by the chancellor stands ‘next to no chance.’

Updated brolly explainers from the taxman are a start, but the government ought to do more at Budget 2023.

Chancellor called to intervene after the taxman says he’ll stand by his tool’s results 'as long as it accurately reflects the terms of the engagement.'

It may be broken in the eyes of many, but the UK’s status framework is being copied by nations trying to tighten up on disguised employment.

Rumours, concerns and confusion. The boss of a contractor accountancy firm accused of being an MSCP clears it all up, and has his say.

The chancellor is potentially right to look at the masters of legacy technology to help solve an age-old problem.

Biz dev specialists (and other contractors) are welcome at my March 7th masterclass on putting LinkedIn Sales Navigator to work for your company.

Looking back, then looking forward with a readiness to make adjustments to keep more of what you earn, is a task for right now.

With ‘pretty much every business saying the skills system in Britain isn’t working,’ the chancellor must act on March 15th.

Referrals to the Independent Office for Police Conduct following 10 taxpayers taking their own lives all got returned to HMRC for its internal investigation.

Murmurs from inside the BoE indicate that if we’re not at the ‘new normal’ already, we’re not far away from it.

Government departments, taxpayers funding departments; and contractors making sure departments are secure -- all being let down by the worst ever performance.

Brolly bosses back the taxman for his uncharacteristic use of plain English.

Technology is driving a Deliveroo-approach to hiring. But whether it’s ghosting or catfishing, don’t put up with it.

Even the tool of the moment prefers humans to machines, confirming that algorithm is no substitute for a professional adviser’s experience.

After nearly falling flat in November, IT contracting passes the ‘test month’ of January by adding three index points.

It’s not just during covid that contractors and other dynamos who work for themselves have been excluded by this government.

The government binning IR35 reform, only to dust it off a few weeks later, has made long hours of knowledge-sharing worth it.

Budget speculation begins as to what it contains (such as a rise in the VAT threshold), and what the opposition might do differently.

Talk from the chancellor of ‘regulatory flexibility provided by Brexit’ will seem as fantastical to many IT contractors as the shores they once visited.

In the SEB’s absence refer to guidance, say officials, even if understanding it does require ‘fingers in three places at once.’

‘It’s time to explore alternative strategies – like going after rogue umbrella companies.’

How 70,000 job cuts in a single month should sit with computer freelancers on this side of the pond.

Ringing the Revenue is the best response if you’re a contractor who didn’t file or pay before midnight.

Linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone’s husband, a company with clients who died being chased by the taxman is finally 'named and shamed.'

The HM Treasury boss who reinstated IR35 reform audaciously claims to tech entrepreneurs that he’ll back them to the hilt.

Guidance to those intending to flout the 31st deadline is the sort of guidance it pains accountants to give.

‘Miracle workers’ advise the ‘silly monkeys’ how much they’ll owe HMRC if they don’t swing into action before Tuesday.

Sky Sports rugby commentator (not presenter), kicks HMRC’s £695,000 claim of disguised employment into touch.

Former tax inspector flags up where the FTT blew the whistle on the Revenue’s status match-up against the Sky Sports commentator.

Individuals and companies are paying the price for an under-resourced taxman, who simply switches off when things get too busy.

Government accused of gross negligence by 'wilfully ignoring’ risk-to-life alerts while trying to prioritise justifying an ‘immoral policy.’

Big fear of the 12 months to come is IR35, indicating that with the rules introduced almost two years ago, it’s not a case of 'the devil you know.'

Following the off-payroll shambles, who knows what the next Budget holds. But…

MPs won’t be the only ones waiting to hear how it is that ‘HMRC manifestly failed to do its duty on an industrial scale’ with agency workers who used umbrella companies.

What contractors who want to move this year need to understand about lenders, the economy and the market.

An administration that has ‘wholly failed to address issues plaguing the contract workforce,’ narrowly gets the benefit of the doubt from experts.

Treasury minister’s suggestion that the two IR35 reform U-turns were a cost-free exercise is deemed unreliable.

FCSA: Any and all reasonable evidence of unlawful or underhanded practice will be looked into, alongside the companies we’re already investigating.

The Mainpay ruling reinforces ‘If it seems too good to be true, then it invariably is.’ That's now even more the case, with no SEB.

Contractors’ accountants believe the government is right to delay MTD ITSA until 2026, but they say quite a few wrongs remain.

Government called to spell out what it will do with umbrellas, if it won’t regulate them via the SEB.

Delays on pre-Christmas hires makes January ‘the big test,’ but growth in IT contractor demand is already on the up again.

Badly let down by his accountants, the Sky Sports pundit and former rugby star won’t even get to tackle the taxman.

A technically lawful supply of labour (for now anyway) ‘would only prolong and inflame tensions’ on trains, in the NHS, and at schools.

Dangerous to the truth: a mass of questionable statics is unquestionably designed to give the taxman a pat on the back.

Taxman’s short-term impact report on the off-payroll rules receives short shrift from advisers to contractors.

Thirty days never felt so tight -- to pay up within, or get advice and lodge an appeal by.

A self-initiated clean-up, supported by agencies, is this year crucial for the economy and the umbrella sector.

As 2022 draws to a close, the REC takes a deep dive into hiring trends in the technology sector.

A status expert’s reflections on 12 months that will live long in the memory – for all the wrong reasons.

A list of all contractors’ names, statuses, ‘job titles’ and any SDS alterations, are being sought by the taxman.

New platform. Better user experience. Integrated guidance. But when?

‘Not yet a major slowdown’ warns the REC, even if demand for full-time techies is already in negative territory.

A cautionary tale for contractors about lack of focus – on a CV; on your business, on your status.

Six status scenarios playing out now, and bound to continue into next year.

The dust settling on the chancellor’s Green Book is far from pacifying its many critics, including two political IR35 heavyweights.

Concern raised for NHS workers and other ‘average earners’ who used CML, given that HMRC tends to chase individuals, not brollies.

Wider grounds than potentially unauthorised deductions of employer NICs should be considered if taking a brolly to tribunal.

Advisers say a ‘humiliating’ final settlement for the food department that fudged contractor status should ‘mortify’ the taxman and Treasury.

Sombre and powerful, a vigil-turned-protest outside HMRC’s office is further pressure on a chancellor being asked for answers -- by 55 advisers and 80 MPs.

Clean-up efforts look underway, with agencies, government and a charity responding to the payroll sector’s ‘not great’ goings-on.

It’s wild; hysterical and panic-inducing – and that’s only the coverage. Fortunately for contractors, the likelihood is just a reversion of the property market to 2021.

For being more limited than limited companies feared, Hunt’s CGT reforms are a bit of a let-off for small, entrepreneurial businesses.

A timely refresh from the Revenue has industry advisers divided over the trigger. If there was one.

Campaigner: No surprise chancellor Hunt didn’t touch the HMRC policy -- as opposed to schemes, which he absolutely should have tackled.

Beware the false umbrella employers; ineffective opt-outs, and Arthur Daley-esque insurance policies.

‘Less money to go around’ for PSCs is the result of changes to dividends, corporation tax, and the 45p rate. But how much less money is the question.

With an extra bill of £3,750 from corporation tax alone, no wonder some PSCs feel Hunt is hunting them to extinction.

Still sore from him cancelling the off-payroll rules’ cancellation, Hunt’s changes to dividends are ‘salt in the wound’ for PSCs.

Allowance cut is 'small fry in the grand scheme of things,’ but in the Green Book’s small print, the penalisation of PSCs persists.

Jeremy Hunt delivers a ‘plan for stability, growth and public services.’ And a plan to make dividends more taxing.

‘If any payments to contractors are found to be due those will, of course, be Orange Genie’s sole responsibility.’

What the taxman gives with one hand as a tax refund to a failed PSC, he will surely try to take back with the other from its director.

What three contractor service providers say they’d welcome on Thursday fills one status expert with dread.

Six ways the Treasury boss can restore stability, repair the Tories’ reputation and return contracting to what it does best.

No retreat or retrenchment just yet, but pressure, caution and struggle still hit temporary techies and their clients in October.

Advisers worry the taxman isn’t offering much more than an updatable archive of umbrellas which contractors shouldn’t have once used.

Contractors face a potentially ‘worrying’ and ‘significant’ tax hike that ‘would make operating via PSC even more difficult.’

What a Supreme Court ruling might mean for other directors who pay dividends only for their companies to subsequently enter administration.

Brolly bosses write to their staffing partners to try to avoid the same fate as Orange Genie – being removed from PSLs.

The FCSA expels one of the contractor sector’s longest-serving brollies, and vows to tighten its own members’ compliance code from 2023.

The new Rishi Sunak-led government’s first litmus test for contractors is a little over two weeks away.

Nominations open to suppliers going the extra mile to support contractors.

Finding clients, sorting admin, and all while navigating both Brexit and IR35? Contracting abroad isn’t for the faint-hearted, but help is at hand.

Jim Harra letting slip the off-payroll rules benefit HMRC signal that the taxman wasn’t onboard with their repeal, and won’t ever be.

The chancellor going for Budget status, while talking of ‘prudence,’ positions an off-payroll ‘consultation’ as a firmer prospect.

According to people who’ve been in the negotiating room with HM Treasury’s new boss, he’s versatile, open-minded, and not accepting of civil servants' scripts.

Contractor experts try to set aside their concerns, as the ex-chancellor who gave PSCs IR35 reform and next to nothing during covid is coronated Tory leader.