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Contract workers must adjust to BRPs and ‘clipped’ no longer being acceptable RTW proof (even if you may feel like a second-class job-seeker).

A payroll tax liability-responsibility shift from umbrellas to agencies dangerously throws the baby out with the bathwater. It must be stopped.

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

An off-payroll rules update by HMRC is far from the full story. But the subtext is clear – the reformed IR35 rules aren’t going anywhere.

Off-target. Opaque. Overly complicating an already complicated landscape. Spring Statement must scrap or shelve ‘deemed employer.’

Four umbrella regulation areas get opened up, next to two new points, and one very uncertain part with potentially ‘huge impact.’

Greg Smith MP: My hope is the former HMRC inspector makes huge adjustments to scrutinise a scandal that this government cynically wants him to avoid looking properly into at all.

Top 10 announcements chancellor Rachel Reeves must make three weeks from today to boost the flexible workforce – FCSA.

Latest Guides

LITRG: As part of helping the unrepresented be informed, we’re calling in technology to automate your next deductions double-check.

12th March, 2025 | Umbrella Companies

From April 6th 2025, Double Cab Pick-Ups will be treated as company cars for BIK purposes. And this time, there’s no U-turn.

2nd March, 2025 | Money

As Wednesday’s tell-all webinar will deep dive into, successful IT contracting is sometimes just a beginning, middle and end away.

24th February, 2025 | Successful Contracting

Acing the interview is often undone at the last hurdle – your invitation to ask some questions of your own (and yes, it may seem rude to decline).

20th February, 2025 | Successful Contracting

The ‘go-to’ for contractors and agencies to work abroad, manage non-UK gigs and freelance overseas? That’s us for 21 years, but Jan 2025 just broke a new record.

13th February, 2025 | Contracting Overseas

With pensions, the tax relief principle is always the same -- a bit like the need to open up to an IFA to properly fill in your retirement saving blanks.

12th February, 2025 | Money

Exclusive: Hays predicts the five top IT contractor jobs of tomorrow.

4th February, 2025 | Successful Contracting

A ‘how-to’ on selecting career targets and then hitting them -- by someone who’s actually made it in the ‘forever changing’ world of freelance tech.

23rd January, 2025 | Successful Contracting

 

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