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And technology companies are the biggest shirkers of their GDPR responsibilities.

'Dangerous,' 'misleading' and 'unfit for purpose' -- the IR35 digital tool just got demolished.

Your tax return tabled as the means to automatically deduct a small income percentage for retirement.

The defiant dozen: HMRC’s proposal is severely resisted by 12 IR35 consultation respondents.

Don’t do that with IR35, do this instead, say the CIOT, the FCSA and the ARC, among others.

The biggest threat to your livelihood? Probably. And you’ve just a few hours to fight it.

‘Blind.’ ‘Remarkable’. ‘Reckless.’ Accountants give their final assessments before Friday’s cut-off.

Three if not four measures are all it takes to support those who work for themselves -- IPSE.

A little over 48hours left to help safeguard our economic and professional futures.

Second highest reading for contractors, thanks to heat-hit hirers rethinking.

Friday’s deadline to be met by one agency group opposing reform, and another preparing for it.

A once reliable leg-up for contractors now has a pitfall where loans are still owed.

Companies are being pursued for the income-hit of wrongly treating PSCs as inside IR35.

Budget 2018 looks ripe for raising the up to 15% surcharge on second property purchases.

Thanks to a few good agents, 85 days just became 29 days – albeit only for a ‘short period.’

Most smaller companies would both stay in the EU and like a vote on the final deal.

Yet again a certain taxman can’t catch a contractor, even though this time HMRC was the client.

ContractorUK launches Fantasy Football League 2018/19.

Both private firms and public processes accused of pushing a 'Merry-Go-Round culture.'

At-a-glance: how to build quality and effectiveness into the ‘contracting out’ model.

The views of empire-builders among contractors? Possibly. Their targets? Not so much, finds IPSE.

Firms won’t be fined for first 12 months and will be allowed to ‘cut and paste’ – HMRC.

A tell-all survey on Value Added Tax even has room for Brexit, MTD and IR35.

Through the HMRC Looking-Glass is an odd world where only ‘outside’ decisions are penalised.

HMRC overzealousness and taxpayer assertiveness are behind a 36% jump in JRs.

Battle-weary PSCs, send your evidence of blanketing to help keep the heat on HMRC.

Almost nine in 10 contractors get paid on time in the Capital of the North.

A seemingly anodyne PDF on the 2019 Loan Charge is met with rebuffs, questions and letters.

The commercial threat posed to their PSC is behind contractors refusing AMS’s terms.

Contractor sector warns the OTS that its PAYE plan has 'unintended consequences.'

Contractors in and around a few Midlands cities tend to get paid later than anywhere else.

The clock is ticking for taxpayers brought into the split-bill system due to the 'dividend drop.'

REC slams ‘lack of clarity’ for the likes of contractors (and end-users) from 2021.

Ex-chancellor's ‘ticking time bomb’ triggers a near doubling in ‘Ltd’ landlords.

What was once ‘appropriate’ is now ‘correct’ -- just don’t call it ‘blanketing,’ IR35 Forum told.

Having not first succeeded, LCAG is trying again to raise the Revenue’s CEO about tax-inspired suicide attempts.

‘Papering over the cracks’ is up 615%, thanks to powers, probes and misperception.

Our call to the taxman to set up a suicide helpline has been answered, disgracefully -- LCAG.

‘We want to help’ claims the Revenue, ‘but we can only help those who come forward.’

Government may be still ‘jumping the gun’ even in the era of more time to scrutinise.

A status lawyer sums up recent implications for contractors, and says how HMRC can be silenced.

Key IR35 Forum members distance themselves from the MOO paper on their website.

Unprecedented, company-crippling payment terms will undergo their first test on Friday.

Far off May’s peak, growth in IT contractor demand has now reverted to Q1 territory.

Mel Stride MP tackled for uttering what critics count to be four falsehoods.

Treasury minister written to for his ‘astonishing, appalling, fundamentally untrue’ reply.

Even where its odds are poor, a revenue-led HMRC will still likely see you in court.

New payment terms slammed as ‘another nail in the public sector contracting coffin.'

There’s a crossover into Big and Artificial, yet today it’s ‘old’ Data skills which drive contractor demand.

Contractors cowed to go ‘inside IR35’ by trusts threatening a one-two legislative punch.

‘Far from just erring on tax forms, applicants told a £10,000 lie to remain in the UK.’

Two cases of contractor mislabelling require a four-fold definition, says IPSE.

Officials not talking straight is adding to uncertainty for firms aiming for proper treatment.

'Character and conduct' of a freelance techie being sullied by a 'guilty until innocent approach.'

'As most small companies only know MTD by name, next year is far too soon for it.'

Ex-inspector says her old boss understandably wants to understand working practices.

Giving roles 'safe harbour' from IR35 is signalled in the broadcaster's hush talks with the taxman.

Contractors and others who set their own hours will be less tempted to show work the red card.

Pay gap and permie growth losing out, thanks to more females joining the fold.

What’s already being cut for contractors with property is put into the PM’s crosshairs.

People phoning in to kill themselves over backdated tax is overrunning a lobbyist.

What the first responder to ‘countless’ suicide attempts over retrospection is telling the taxman.

The health service’s hiring managers are struggling with ‘disastrous’ reform – study.

Cordova expected to pass Rust on its way down from hirers’ websites.

As a new CEST is rumoured, emails show ‘Ltd’ was all but compulsory for BBC talent.

Telling lies and turning blind eyes if IR35 changes could put PSCs' partners in the dock.

A 'candid' late payment tsar reveals success is still in single figures, despite him being operational for eight months.

'And even then, with Brexit, MTD and IR35 reform looming, it needs conditions.'

A lender’s new offer is shaped around the Treasury changing buy-to-let’s economics.

Javid's plan will lead to more highly skilled workers from abroad in UK tech.

Firms warned they face a ‘tsunami of claims’ from ex-contractors demanding cash.

Agency says clients tried to turn contractors, yet today the experienced have the edge.

Ex-tax inspector says it’ll all backfire for HMRC if Direct Engagement schemes flourish.

The ceiling for when VAT applies should be higher than today’s £85,000, says IPSE.

Far from moving away from them, the BBC’s payments to ‘Ltd’ presenters are up 25%.

Same old-same old for clients, yet a 10-month high for IT contractors.

Be ‘very careful’ not to spark an HMRC investigation, dual income taxpayers told.

A hardening taxman is on the lookout for ‘out of the ordinary’ transactions.

A ‘bird’s eye view’ of IT communities in niche sectors should let you swoop down on the gaps.

Ministers must do what the taxman won’t -- keep their ears, eyes and minds open.

PSC directors who bet their home for a loan lose big in a property downturn -- BoE.

NAO tipped to tackle why the taxman’s external tech help bill is up by 9,000%.

Don’t panic about HMRC delays, but bear in mind they unfortunately won’t affect IR35 reform.

IPSE: Taxman’s responsiveness will worsen should status decisions be made more difficult.

The road is long, expensive and emotional draining, say tiny tech company founders.

Five areas of the private sector IR35 reform proposal fail the (whole) truth test.

Slightly less liabilities on hirers, plus chain-wide IR35 compliance? HMRC may have found its answer.

‘Strong demand for only partially financially-satisfied contractors is due to post-GDPR work, not just pre.’

What GDPR is; how to comply and why IT contractors will probably welcome it.

Delays, increased costs and bigger workloads. And that’s the government’s own findings.

We’ll keep objecting, but off-payroll rules on all PSCs are now a foregone conclusion, experts say.

A lot for the taxman to tackle before 2020 (no sooner please), because his thinking is flawed.

Qdos wants your views about being a PSC amid the BBC/NHS/IR35 debacle.

‘Unimaginative,’ ‘shameful,’ ‘outrageous.’ Or is it just a cry to contractors for help?

For the first time, Tier 2 is denying hundreds of firms the techies they say they want.

Not for want of trying! HMRC fails in its second attempt to catch a PSC ‘well-versed’ in IR35.

A taxman going back over a decade in 'reasonable care' cases is 'wrong in principle.'

PSCs -- look forward, because a perfect storm of contractor regulation is brewing.

Private sector IR35 reform? Yes, but not as you know it.