A single test involving a Boox contractor, and the separate test case for CK contractors, could be scheduled before 2025 is out.

Two consecutive months of momentum ground to a halt in April, from a ‘bow wave of costs’ that dampened hiring.

Freshly ‘named and shamed’ Miwsa Ltd triggers a list-wide update, advising recruiters and contractors to scrutinise umbrella company tax deductions.

A postponement to payrolling BIKs of 12 months is being well-received, as is a 2027/28 penalty waiver (of sorts).

A ‘win-at-all-costs’ taxman is concerning for those of us who champion contracting, especially given the spring in his step courtesy of the courts.

A new ‘gateway question’ on Mutuality is the most noticeable of numerous, non-material changes to the official IR35 tool.

James Murray MP just recommitted to arming HMRC with extra coshes to beat back a £600m problem, including by making more directors personally liable.

Combined with complications caused by PGMOL, limited grounds of appeal were the urologist’s undoing.

Chancellor is put on notice that rushing the PAYE shift risks ‘disrupting the supply chain’ and ‘reducing tax receipts to the exchequer.’

A weighty 63 questions is (hopefully) the government’s sign that avoiders will need a hard hat by the time HMRC is done.

An HMRC update clarifies that while the starting gun may be unholstered in April 2026, it won’t be fired until April 2027.

‘Examples of good practice for umbrella companies’ isn’t a fishing expedition. Even if some of the spelt out legal duties could be checked up on.

A big step towards 'the black' in March makes it the brightest month for IT contractors since November 2023.

April tax changes: why choosing the right business current account should matter to contractors now more than ever.

Taxman blackens the black mark he’s already put by three companies, while ‘naming and shaming’ four more schemes that he says ‘contractors should exit.’

The swingeing 8.7% tax hike is best broached now or at contract renewal but, either way, ensure your uplift calculation is correct.

An ‘essential’ new tax year update for limited company directors seeking to shore up the bottom line.

Ex-HMRC veteran tells ContractorUK that IT contractors could help his ‘focussed’ review, even if it is a ‘disappointingly narrow’ focus according to some.

The chancellor’s Revenue fillip is off to a fortuitous start. Just make sure you’re not the next John Strange.

Rachel Reeves is a chancellor ‘less about anything new and more about reaffirmation,’ so the ‘un-merry-go-round’ for UK contracting continues.

Despite a lean statement with no ‘further tax rises,’ umbrella and limited company workers aren’t off the hook, due to a ‘soon-to-be reinvigorated HMRC.’

Rachel Reeves unveils a ‘serious plan to renew our country,’ free of 'any further tax increases.'

Contrary to popular belief, ‘deemed employment’ and regulating umbrella companies are two separate proposals.

It’s all over for another player-turned-pundit and their IR35 appeal against a comfortably victorious HMRC.

Three housing market measures could upend the UK’s property landscape from this Wednesday.

Avoiding running off agency PAYE reference numbers is how the government can avoid destabilising the UK’s entire temporary labour market.

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.

A new off-payroll working rules impact-assessment holds the HMRC line of not facing up to IR35’s damage.

Pursuing an income tax demand against a bipolar taxpayer with a court-confirmed suicide risk, who was discriminated against, isn’t HMRC’s best look.

A personalised overview of the pressing issue of P9 coding notices (includes decoding your tax code for meaning).

As HMRC rapidly blacklists scores more tax avoidance schemes, the focus shifts to whether FCSA should become keeper of a ‘naughty list.’

What April 2026’s requirement on agents to HMRC-register means if you're a limited company in the market for tax advice.

A ‘cog in the wheel’ who spun ‘legal alternatives to using insolvency practitioners’ to distressed IT firms is disqualified, after £7.6million in assets goes unaccounted for.

With the IR35 ball soon back in some contractors’ courts, blanketing should ease, but the compliance burden for many individual limited company workers will increase.

REC: No New Year let up in economic uncertainty, ahead of April tax rises, is staying the hands of business.

Unless you’re Michelle Appiah, an appeal of her employment tribunal victory makes much-needed sense.

One change to Business Asset Disposal Relief is already tripping up directors, ahead of another in April that will sting an estimated 264,000.

We need contractors to answer 10 off-payroll working questions, to help us convince the chancellor it’s time for an IR35 fix – IPSE.

My belt and braces step-by-step is best if you’re a tardy contractor already due a £100 HMRC penalty.

At a time of tumbleweed, and goal-setting, consider switching to Energy to tap into a £24bn-and-growing industry.

By potentially overlooking the importance of control, the footballing legend let a couple get past him.

Criticisms that still dog Sir Amyas Morse’s work are already Ray McCann’s to squelch, as he begins a ‘skewed brief’ that makes a ‘sham’ of Rachel Reeves’ promise.

Premium Bonds can see ‘contracting contingency money’ go further than sitting in a savings account.

IR35 advisers risk getting ahead of themselves by saying one ‘highly fact-sensitive’ case is a sign of things to come from contractors (bar those ‘workers’ who’ve contracted via Tripod).

‘Bamboozled, frustrated and ready to give up’ IT contractors reminded that Christmas is partly behind a new low of four-and-a-half years.

A look by someone who’s sold up already at whether April 6th 2026 regulation is going to trigger umbrella mergers, acquisitions by recruitment agencies, or neither.

The FCSA warns the Treasury’s James Murray MP that without intervention on multiple fronts, the UK’s temporary labour supply chain could collapse.

The Stevenage-based umbrella is warning of a copycat, potentially preying on contractors, agencies, and its own reputation.

Experts on contractors’ cash find a poll that was on the money in 2024 overestimating the depth and frequency of base rate reductions in 2025.

A holding of horses might be required for IT contractors seeking a fresh start, especially amid today’s less-than-stellar market.

Previewed and revealed: the ‘hot’ IT contractor skills of next year, their current rates, forecasted rates, and why they’ll be critical.

IR35, tax and umbrella company advisers are hoping the chancellor uses her second fiscal package to ‘steady the ship’ -- by rescinding April’s employer NIC changes.

The interesting (court) case of the would-be contractor unreasonably denied freelance work serves as a cautionary client tale for 2025.

In wake of Gary’s Lineker settlement, Bauer & Cottrell provides crucial Christmas reading for contractors wanting an HMRC-free new tax year.

Autumn Budget brought a glimmer of hope that ‘LTD’ will be back in business in 2025-26, if only because the taxman’s new tanks are parked on the lawn of everybody else.

The taxman pulls no punches in his latest MSC appearance, so potentially bob and weave, don’t just read.

Questions about the taxman’s Litigation and Settlement Strategy are being asked, even more so than who offered, who conceded, and how much.

The National Insurance ‘shock’ to employers is so ‘sharp’ that lockdown was the last time IT contractor demand was weaker -- REC.

While the crystal ball is as opaque as it gets, it’s clear that the contractor-friendly lender is meeting a need, at least psychologically.

A Managed Service Company update from the taxman highlights the need for a change to the 17-year-old legislation.

Just as umbrella company regulation is doing, the taxman’s talk about his avoidance list appears to be taking the gloss off it.

Photo, headline and job title are key, to entice agents to click beyond their premium product showing you only in ‘snapshot.’

Far from the demise of brollies, new legislation from April 6th 2026 will see many operators thrive.

When the IT contractor who shows up for work isn’t the UK citizen/PSC director who landed the role.

Legislation will have the final word, but we can already say the speculation, misinterpretation, and mischaracterisation appear to have no bounds.

Contractors may be the sole beneficiaries of Labour’s umbrella company regulation plan (which won’t be consulted on).

The cheered-on Covid Corruption Commissioner is set to back strictness for taxpayers and leniency for the taxman (not vice versa), as seen in Ark Angel Ltd v HMRC.

Nineteen ‘exceptional’ companies, six ‘highly commended’ providers, and two individuals. All just got acknowledged as going ‘the extra mile’ for UK IT contracting.

Rigour mortis will surely set into the umbrella industry before April 6th 2026 -- potentially the point of death for umbrellas as we know them today.

The temporary tech jobs market gets a ‘glimmer’ to offset the ‘dire’, but it’s hardly thanks to the chancellor.

There’s no final bill or liability admission. But the Welsh government agency set up to sustainably manage the environment clearly didn’t manage off-payroll worker status properly.

A seemingly small Autumn Budget announcement is actually a big concern, and it’s not even the nearly double-figure rate that’s unsettling.

The definitive guide to eight ‘easy target’ areas the Labour chancellor is hitting to raise many extra billions.

A day looks like a long time in leaky Budget politics, or so suggests the global market reaction to Rachel Reeves being at the helm.

A ‘smiling,’ ‘slashing’ and ‘butchering’ Rachel Reeves 'squeezes the juice from business while not giving enterprise much to get on with business.'

Rachel Reeves unveils a Budget to ‘restore economic stability’ and ‘rebuild Britain.’

Change for contractors and contractors’ workplaces is incoming -- next year, October 2026, and potentially even today too.

Vindicated for its 'reasonableness,' an NHS supplier won’t have to pay our unsympathetic taxman a £250,000 penalty for a late VAT return.

The first Labour Budget in 14 years is imminent, but what’s expected from chancellor Rachel Reeves and what do contractors need to see unveiled?

What the Supreme Court's employment status ruling means for the IR35 factors Control and MoO, and even Status Determinations under OPW.

Seven takeaways from the 15 month-coming ‘Mutuality’ case, where the final whistle on the referees’ status may still be pipped at the post by a rematch.

Over a dozen arrangements ‘named and shamed’ by the taxman, including one with reserves so low that contractors must be in the frame.

For contractors and other taxpayers, even celebrities, the government's reach growing is (for once) something to get behind.

IR35, umbrella regulation and Single Worker Status. Labour puts it all off until tomorrow, so it can keep its promise to the masses today.

The early bird catches the worm. Or does it? Harvey Nash answers for ContractorUK.

Autumn Budget’s bung on tech staff hiring is being shored up by the Employment Rights bill and Industrial Strategy.

Despite now being blocked, the voice of rugby’s outside IR35 attempt passes on key lessons for tackling the hypothetical contract’s complexity.

The taxman’s MoO and Control wins, as substitution seemingly fails, make underway OPW audits ‘risky’ for many.

What will make government happy on October 30th will make UK homeowners happy, too. At least that’s the theory.

Contractors, have you got a substitution policy document, outlining how the supply chain would deal with you enacting your RoS?

The latest public sector IR35 bill is pretty swingeing -- but the overall trend suggests public sector bodies are getting to grips with the OPW rules, after seven long years.

It’s clear HMRC has learnt from its enforcement work in the public sector, before HS2 and as a direct result of it. Don’t leave your own learnings to the last.

The taxman’s ‘naming and shaming’ just passed a major milestone, mirroring ‘increasing concern about umbrella supply chains.’