The taxman, the ultimate setter of deadlines, embarrassingly misses the cut-off to overturn a tribunal’s outside IR35 judgment.
16th August, 2021 | IR35 News
Statement of Works users on official alert to ‘make sure you’re applying the rules correctly.’
15th August, 2021 | IR35 News
Despite officials starting to realise that tech is smarter, a digital system is unlikely to be ready by September 1st.
13th August, 2021 | Comment
More of the same, some of the new and a fair dose of ‘we told you so?’ It’s all part of today’s ‘pick and choose’ IT contractor jobs market.
12th August, 2021 | Comment
Home Office signals digital concession has had its time, ahead of an online demo by 50 disagreeing employers.
10th August, 2021 | Job News
Agency bosses: It’s not all about rates, but the pay picture for contractors has definitely now changed.
9th August, 2021 | Contracting News
Some Olympic-style results are emerging from HMRC’s off-payroll game – but the public sector won’t win any medals for IR35 compliance.
7th August, 2021 | Comment
An influential Tory backbench committee chair adds his name to a new cross-party plea to quash the loan charge.
5th August, 2021 | Contracting News
Contractor umbrella companies say the union has got it wrong, again, although all agree ‘bad apples’ must be weeded out.
It’s nice to think lenders are watching the courts for direction on their customers’ status. Shame they aren’t.
4th August, 2021 | Comment
Five fouls contractors would be wise to avoid committing, to up their game and keep agents on side.
30th July, 2021 | Comment
Covid may be passing, but the traps laid at almost every step of going forward for your next contract remain ready to ensnare.
28th July, 2021 | Job News
Alongside ‘supply and demand,’ another dynamic is dominating the contractor labour market -- ‘cause and effect,’ ever since April 6th.
Different roles require different approaches – and different documents, from your ‘off-payroll-ready’ portfolio.
26th July, 2021 | Job News
It applies to individuals not companies, but Breathing Space looks set to do a brisk business.
21st July, 2021 | Comment
CEST puts it at 56%; we put it at 72%. But the chunk of not caught rules is as low as 26%. And some job ads carry no status whatsoever.
20th July, 2021 | Comment
Peer accuses the Revenue’s top officer of being the disliked Biblical tax collector, notorious for washing his hands of a grave decision.
19th July, 2021 | Contracting News
The self-employed for once are the more straightforward applicants, not putting client HR managers at risk of jail time.
15th July, 2021 | Comment
Judge signals taxpayer ignorance of tax law is definitely an excuse, where that ignorance came from the tax authority.
14th July, 2021 | Money News
Despite a long list of ways to apparently reduce your tax fine, the room for manoeuvre is actually very small.
14th July, 2021 | Comment
Five underhand tactics to beware when contractor recruitment agencies go bad.
13th July, 2021 | Comment
PM’s sympathy for loan charge contractors isn’t enough for 76 MPs pressing for 'fair resolution.'
12th July, 2021 | Contracting News
The tech recruiter says a contractor hiring increase of 17% comes despite off-payroll 'concerns.'
12th July, 2021 | IR35 News
The strange, ‘complex’ case of the contractor outside IR35, put inside IR35; who disagreed, only to rubbish a sub clause which a judge backed.
9th July, 2021 | IR35 News
June saw more appetite for temporary techies than at any time in the last 23 years, but ‘unpredictability’ looms.
8th July, 2021 | Contracting News
'Juicy fines' tipped to bite contractors’ agencies and umbrellas breaching April’s KID requirement.
7th July, 2021 | Job News
Physical Right to Work checks are the stuff of a bygone age. Government must keep them digital from September 1st.
6th July, 2021 | Comment
The April rules have helped bring the UK’s supply chains to crisis point, says the RHA.
5th July, 2021 | IR35 News
Experts say a genuine right to send another in your place still proves self-employment, albeit not in isolation.
5th July, 2021 | Contracting News
The taxman likes killing two birds with one stone, so beware your furlough probe turning into an IR35 investigation.
2nd July, 2021 | Comment
‘Fractured’ situation hits agency temps, as tribunals are left to sort out who is owed what and who was a ‘worker’ when.
1st July, 2021 | Coronavirus News
Thankfully the European Commission has added the UK to an elite club -- no major surprise, yet it was touch-and-go for a bit.
30th June, 2021 | Comment
The sheer weight of CJRS interventions could be seized upon to keep denying directors help, fears Forgotten Ltd.
29th June, 2021 | Coronavirus News
Even by the taxman’s own figures, Check Employment Status for Tax is still not fit for purpose -- advisers.
28th June, 2021 | IR35 News
Taxman forced to reveal that at just a little over its halfway point, his IR35 tool swallowed a lot -- almost £2million.
Pandemic or not, either your limited company’s distribution to yourself was due or it wasn’t.
24th June, 2021 | Comment
The pandemic is sharpening the double-edged sword of work that can be done anywhere, ‘potentially cheaper’ and by the ‘equally skilled.’
23rd June, 2021 | Job News
Offshore teams and tech have come on enormously, yet nimble IT contractors needn’t be fazed.
23rd June, 2021 | Comment
Studies, surveys and snapshots? Keep ‘em coming. But three channels will provide the real answer – and soon.
22nd June, 2021 | Comment
Why that covid-19 cash injection your company got could have rendered your dividend illegal.
21st June, 2021 | Comment
The government postponing the return of physical checks for the second time bodes well for a 'permanent digital solution.'
21st June, 2021 | Job News
Don’t let long wait times at the Revenue put you off – start today, says the LITRG.
17th June, 2021 | Contracting News
Stats indicate departments have more B2B openings than pre-reform. All the signs suggest companies will follow suit.
16th June, 2021 | Comment
Umbrella director gets off with a year’s disqualification for every month he channelled out an unsubstantiated £37million.
16th June, 2021 | Contracting News
Get your client’s view of things, and get it early, regardless of which set of off-payroll rules affect you.
15th June, 2021 | Comment
It’s not business-as-usual. But limited company contracting is far from on its knees.
A Nationwide IT contractor who worked as a project manager falls short by 'fine margins.'
14th June, 2021 | IR35 News
‘Client put me outside IR35 -- I’m alright Jack.’ But are you, really?
11th June, 2021 | Comment
A Single Enforcement Body is welcomed, but not unreservedly and with qualms over when.
10th June, 2021 | Contracting News
Contractors are shoulder to shoulder with staff when it comes to the grounds to refuse extending their arms.
9th June, 2021 | Comment
At least two reliefs from stamp duty could help keep the inevitable post-holiday blues at bay.
8th June, 2021 | Comment
Not since May 1998 has appetite for technology skills on a temp basis been so 'huge.'
7th June, 2021 | Contracting News
Two studies put one in three contractors as not caught by the ‘damning’ April 6th rules.
7th June, 2021 | IR35 News
Taxman accused of 'doing all he can to hold on to people’s money, in defiance of Morse.'
3rd June, 2021 | Contracting News
A multi-million pound worker compensation bill could compel droves of employers – and self-employed individuals – to act.
3rd June, 2021 | IR35 News
The Guardian asks to hear from the excluded; The Times ‘misses the elephant in the room’ and The Sun is seen as a warning.
1st June, 2021 | Coronavirus News
Ideas to regulate brollies are flowing thick and fast, with many saying the ultimate solution rests with end-users.
1st June, 2021 | Contracting News
Respected advisory firm’s ‘reform can be managed’ comment positioned to MPs as proof off-payroll reform is being welcomed.
27th May, 2021 | Contracting News
MVL, dormancy, striking off. Don’t say you haven’t got options in the post-IR35 reform world.
27th May, 2021 | Comment
Signs the government is potentially open to acting against brollies indicates 'all is not lost.'
26th May, 2021 | Contracting News
HMT has an opportunity to provide much-needed clarity and reassurance to the contractor sector.
25th May, 2021 | Comment
Almost ten well-established contractor sector businesses say they’d sign their names to the Poyser-Seeley Harris plan.
24th May, 2021 | Contracting News
Your mate down the pub who closed his company and run will be hoping he didn’t do so in the last three years.
21st May, 2021 | Comment
International travel transferring from illegal to a three-tier system, with colours, looks appealing. But appearances can be deceptive.
20th May, 2021 | Comment
Except for technical-types typically sole trading, contractors are glum about their business, more so than about the economy -- IPSE.
19th May, 2021 | Contracting News
The government must use its June RTW review to bring the UK’s outdated employing process into the 21st century.
19th May, 2021 | Comment
Taxman ‘buckles down’ on a suspected CJRS rip-off and in the same loop, an alleged multi-million-pound scam.
17th May, 2021 | Coronavirus News
Agents back an 11th hour extension, but say virtual checks are so much better they should be here to stay.
17th May, 2021 | Job News
An audit, of sorts, to work out how 48,000 mini umbrellas have sprung up so quickly begins.
12th May, 2021 | Contracting News
Last night’s story of 'Britain’s Ghost Companies' should compel the taxman to take no more of this pernicious fraud.
12th May, 2021 | Comment
Emails released under FoI rules confirm HMRC’s failure to alter its approach is its failure to achieve resolution. And it’s a failure signed off at the very top.
11th May, 2021 | Comment
The taxman is trying to blow the whistle on the Match of the Day presenter, but experts say he’s got an open goal -- his brand.
10th May, 2021 | IR35 News
Clients. Agencies. Umbrellas, accountants, and even us IR35 ‘experts.’ Just like contractors, we’ve all got off-payroll angst.
6th May, 2021 | Comment
A steep learning curve with turbulence, challenge and worry has defined the last four weeks.
When the ‘good news for the self-employed’ in The Times isn’t quite what it seems.
5th May, 2021 | Comment
Updates on .gov in wake of IR35 reform indicate the Revenue realises the brolly situation.
4th May, 2021 | Contracting News
How VAT gets accounted for when UK businesses supply services to the European Union.
29th April, 2021 | Comment
The threat that HMRC and its original IR35 continue to pose to PSCs just turned very real.
28th April, 2021 | Comment
Courier firm gets cut off from appealing, but many are challenging the government not to sit idle.
26th April, 2021 | Contracting News
The digital system works, government told, so reverting to physical checks with covid still lingering is ‘nonsensical.’
26th April, 2021 | Job News
Universal it’s not, but clients are forking out more for freelance tech skills, knowing the off-payroll rules are hurting.
23rd April, 2021 | Comment
Amid accounts of homelessness, death and life-changing pursuits, contractors can now tell campaigning MPs what they could cope with.
22nd April, 2021 | Contracting News
Chatting is recommended to help keep the weight of formal disagreements to a mere ‘deluge.’
20th April, 2021 | IR35 News
Taxing off-payroll rules just as the economy fires up? Believe it or not, the timing could hardly be better.
20th April, 2021 | Comment
Taxman takes on board two errors he made, but is warned: ‘I shall keep nit-picking.’
19th April, 2021 | IR35 News
Firing at ‘twisters’ and ‘stone-throwers,’ a gun-toting CEO says ‘bad practice’ is in his sights too.
19th April, 2021 | Contracting News
ContractorUK reveals the company names that made even the censors blush.
16th April, 2021 | Contracting News
The LITRG spells out where its 11 chapters can help IR35 reform-hit PSCs to turn the page, safely.
13th April, 2021 | Comment
Loudest call for freelance techies since July 2018 indicates the covid bounce back has begun.
12th April, 2021 | Contracting News
A ‘comprehensive’ report on ‘cleaning up the contractor supply chain’ is welcomed.
A few words from CEST Explained’s author on the tool’s future, including potentially new questions in July.
9th April, 2021 | Comment
Everything the taxman wants you to know about private sector IR35 reform, in his own words.
7th April, 2021 | Comment
Contentious reforms to the Intermediaries legislation are finally here. But what do they mean for you?
6th April, 2021 | IR35 News
A law firm reveals what's on the minds of the new IR35 status decision-makers -- end-users.
6th April, 2021 | Comment
Agencies have had to ‘pick their battles’ to succeed in preparing end-users for Tuesday’s ‘big difference’ – SThree.
1st April, 2021 | IR35 News
A BBC radio show finally tuned in to a long-running problem. But the veracity of the on-air claims are worthy of scrutiny too.
31st March, 2021 | Comment
Ominous warning implies that 25 errors in a single Revenue webinar could be just the tip of the iceberg.
29th March, 2021 | IR35 News
The issue of underhand, years-old pocketing of contractor cash by some brollies is reignited -- on the very cusp of IR35 reform.
25th March, 2021 | Contracting News
Top adviser to contractors sullied by the Revenue, for taking too much ‘reasonable care’ in his assessment of official advice to agencies.
24th March, 2021 | IR35 News
The new kid on the shady block is thanking their lucky stars. But it’s users who will end up far from fortunate.
23rd March, 2021 | Comment
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