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A technical consultation on the April 6th off-payroll set-off is underway, so contractors can have a say. But be quick.

Top 5 reasons why off-payroll liability clauses on contractors are very likely worth the paper they’re printed on.

Landing a software development contract never looked so different, so remove your interview/contract blinkers and gear up.

Where will you spend, save and succeed in tax year 2024-25; and crucially, how?

What limited company contractors need to do to reduce a HMRC liability of £14,476 to not even £9k.

Readers of ContractorUK validate a new IPSE-Workwell study finding clients are getting far too good a deal.

Markel responds to claims ‘it’s not right to indicate indemnity clauses against OPW taxes aren’t enforceable.’

In spite of the dreaded M-word, PSCs probably won’t shed too many tears waving goodbye to P11Ds from April 2026.

How to ensure your client doesn’t become the next HelloFresh, Bank of Ireland or Optionis (Caroola).

Showing passion and purpose for his 60,000 victims, MPs should go down in history for squaring up to an unaccountable, unfair, and uncontrollable taxman.

A feverish sense of fatigue, and it’s not even February? These boosters are at least one New Year’s resolution you can actually stick to.

IT jobs agencies confirm to ContractorUK it’s not just outside that the big freeze is on, unless you’re skilled in emerging tech.

The March 6th odds don’t look good for action on key contractor sector areas like IR35 and umbrella company regulation.

‘Unsuspecting contractors’ alerted to a new company to withdraw from, even if ‘the horse has already bolted.’

Just say ‘No’ and other strategies for not getting caught by the off-payroll rules in the next 12 months.

When market forces are too erratic to fathom, the best mortgage for contractors is entirely based on your now, and what you want from your tomorrow.

Not since July 2020 have prospects for IT contractors looked so ice cold.

The tax-free allowance’s direction of travel indicates contractors could end up at Spring Budget 2024 with just £250.

The UK’s data watchdog says the parent company of Nixon Williams, Parasol and formerly SJD Accountancy breached the GDPR.

The strengths -- worries -- threats and opportunities, incoming for contractors in this uncertain, but now undisputed election year.

There’s no happy new year for ‘Dodgy Agency Ltd’ which had to pay one IT contractor in full, and now faces an investigation into its sharp practices.

'Clever Jeremy' told to act on limited company tax, even if the IR35 ‘clownshow’ suggests the current administration isn’t into supporting PSCs.

If what HMRC threw at limited company contractors and end-users in late 2023 is anything to go by, here’s what’s in store in 2024.

The taxman has scored a £300,000 IR35 goal against the former Liverpool defender.

How the Loose Women presenter saw off HMRC, despite the appearance of more ‘employed’ factors than ‘self-employed’ factors.

The hard, soft, and still emerging skills required to succeed with Artificial Intelligence on a contract basis.

Where in Europe will next year be the most promising, receptive, and financially rewarding for freelance software engineers.

New Year sign-offs for top IT contractors could have inspired the first uplift in temporary tech skills since September.

It’s probably only us truly independent contractors who can untie the Gordian knot of off-payroll.

To recruiters who use brollies the taxman has published inadequate guidance -- a list of must-dos bereft of any new directional detail.

A dispassionate look into the arrangement at the centre of a heated, public disagreement on LinkedIn.

The taxman just missed an opportunity by not denouncing clients who get off the hook by imposing off-payroll indemnities on agencies.

Buckingham Wealth; Hive Umbrella, PAYE Services, Bluestar Associates, Excala Solutions, Griffith Anderson and Rainbowpay get ‘named and shamed.’

The taxman is now seeking to recover covid cash from PSC directors, personally, even where they took advice, professionally.

Here's your invitation to be part of a ground-breaking industry milestone (and get a little justice while you’re at it).

International Men’s Day 2023 rightly recognises that too many men are no longer with us, too often because they couldn’t share with us. What can you do to change that?

A surprisingly unknown but freshly updated bit of HMRC guidance could save contractors’ agencies from hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax liabilities.

A mutual offering to contractor PSCs sounds a bit 'meh.' But in key areas, that’s exactly what this chancellor managed.

Chancellor offers 111, not 110 pro-business measures, while boosting umbrella contractor take-home pay by up to £750 a year.

Jeremy Hunt delivers ‘an Autumn Statement for a country that has turned a corner…an Autumn Statement for UK growth.’

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