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When being wise after the event still lands an airline the biggest fine yet.

Minister deluged with personal testimony after saying he welcomes being corrected by evidence.

BT, BAE, Centrica, Fujitsu and Prudential are removed for Prompt Payment Code flouting.

Not enshrining the tool hasn’t taken the heat out of how ‘useless’ version 2 is expected to be.

Come 2020, it looks as if a channel open for contractors to independently contest bad IR35 decisions will close.

Loan Charge APPG tells peers that Jesse Norman’s pledge doesn’t mean what it sounds like.

A help to PSCs? A trigger for more blanketing? Or just more complexity? Experts think it all.

A great way to learn and find work excludes almost 1milllion agency contractors, government told.

No duty on engagers to notify exempt status means PSC won’t know if IR35 is in play or not.

Few curveballs but no delay, as the biggest shake-up to contracting is going ahead from next April.

Radio sports writer scores a narrow win over HMRC’s hattrick of status arguments.

This full admission is welcome, says WTT; less so what it says about HMRC.

The three reasons clients give for not sorting your IR35 status will go as Finance Bill arrives tomorrow.

Thompson hit for internally using a pursuit animal image, even though contractors have died from being chased.

Robotic or just unsympathetic? Contractors’ tax advisers try to work out HMRC granting much less wriggle room.

Full-timer scarcity reduced too, but ‘hiring right’ is tech start-ups’ biggest obstacle.

Counting down to disclosure needs some clarity, as HMRC has brought only opaqueness.

Slight uptick since May’s low, but a ‘cautious approach’ by hirers looks set for the summer.

Bank rejects insider’s claims, but agrees it won’t cease and desist limited company hires.

Despite new replies on IR35 not adding much, one contractor is taking a stand -- alongside 12,000 others.

Delaying April’s rules is the only way to avert more Morgan Stanleys, policy-makers told.

Chancellor caught saying ‘well done’ after new minister’s ‘callous’ performance.

A 25% siphon from your pay adds up to fraud, and may build the fraudster a buffer.

Britons contracting in Europe said to be tempted, despite HMRC’s success.

Fines for not paying you are, well; fine, but recovery costs are really where reform could come into its own.

Bank is the first big client to explore a ‘viable’ way to maintain PSC usage post-2020.

Both prime ministerial contenders make commitments to independently probing the disguised remuneration tax.

Round two of rules to implement 2020’s off-payroll tax will begin in two weeks.

And if they become the first of many, day-rate contract work has surely had its day.

Permits letting migrants work, start-up and move within the UK chalk up their fifth annual rise.

The domino effect of HSBC’s IR35 plan is underway, as two more clients impose ‘cease and desist’ PSC policies.

Agents are among those who want it all now. Don’t disappoint; do it in near-real time.

Nine contractor outfits join this website in calling our next PM to nullify both the Loan Charge and IR35 reform.

What your advisers, lobbyists and publications are today telling our country’s next prime minister.

Better late than never? Officials table penalties as a new, overdue weapon in Paul Uppal’s armoury.

Treasury minister’s take on new stats is at odds with multiple charges that they don’t stack up.

The ins and outs of CGT, including what’s new from April 2020.

As the Holden case shows, attempts to find skeletons in your cupboard can only go so far.

MPs including a ‘determined’ Sir Ed Davey get a face-to-face with the loan charge minister.

Uncertainty is likely to blame if you’re on the bench through no fault of your own.

Where firms are borrowing from the old IR35 of 2017, to prepare for the new in 2020.

A look at some of the big players implies all will not be lost when IR35 rules change; but playing catch-up still pervades.

Three status experts implore HMRC -- look at what you’ve done before you leap to do more.

MP fighting for No 10 is pacified by a radio phone-in asking her about death and taxes.

What an aspiring Tory leader said when the daughter of a loan charge suicide victim rung her up.

Your chance to help depose Bad King John’s successor by protesting in Runnymede on Saturday.

The freelance world closing in is almost here; again. But it’s a (un) merry-go-round some of us can get off.

Small is complicated, IR35 consultation respondents tell the taxman of his exemption.

Brexit bounce squashed by an 83-month loss, ahead of a ‘summer of stalemate’.

Even a mix of the likely models, and motivators, can’t be banked on to beat IR35 from April 2020.

‘Both you and us are far from ready for this,’ taxman hears from adviser, accountant and contractor groups.

Dodgy payslips (and damn good sellers) are helping keep the NHS’s rogues in rude health.

Taxman is likened to a trapdoor spider, waiting for users who fall into his web to accrue penalties.

Staying when we ought to have left (by now) is governing the worse position contractors are in -- IPSE.

Jesse Norman faces the biggest show of MP support for probing and postponing the charge.

A £20,000 payout by the MoD ends the horror for Holden but for contractors, the questions begin.

Programming clients to run demos of what you dread, while extolling how your weekend matters.

MPs are told the Treasury has given them partial, misleading or simply ‘not true’ answers.

Jesse Norman MP ‘consulting’ on throwing his hat into the ring to succeed Theresa May.

Whether it stays or it goes, new data legislation is here now, and enforcement is next.

Software engineering and security gaps are a shoo-in for freelancers, at banks especially.

Jesse Norman MP inundated with calls to suspend, delay and review the ‘pernicious’ tax.

Only one working day left to object to the biggest assault on off-payroll workers in two decades.

As misleading maestro Mel gets promoted, his old boss must answer for his own sinister conduct and allegations.

Not being part of a team is good for your status; and even better for your demons.

And where in the capital rates are almost £1,000 a day.

‘It’s Revenue customers, not the Revenue, who’s behind tax not being collected 20 years ago.’

‘Loan-busting’ scheme promoters get picked up. Questioned. And released.

Agree or disagree with IR35 changing in April? There’s only a week left to speak up.

Chancellor asked if he’ll do the ‘extraordinary’ -- finally listen and act.

Pop-ups, signposts and plainer English among a number of tweaks to the tool.

A history of cash collection portals can bring out the blushes nearly as much as X-rated visits.

Jokes over a 1p tax bill have a serious side, including irate contractors and potentially lost business.

Placing HMRC higher up the payment pecking order in insolvency is premature and poorly timed.

Chancellor told to consider if his ‘misleading’ comments need amending or clarifying.

LCAG disputes IOPC finding ‘no evidence’ Revenue saw customer as a threat to themselves.

Temp billings ‘bounce back’ on the back of Brexit concerns, but only very faintly in IT.

What chance for you and your client next year if even a big bank is struggling with IR35 reform now?

New IR35 Forum minutes show HMRC knows about trying to insert parties (and clauses) to nullify 2020’s reform.

Fears of a whitewash as taxman gets told that he alone can decide his appropriateness.

New hoops for directors to jump through, thanks to the 175-year-old register digitalising.

Only 20 days to go to oppose old tax debts falling due much sooner.

Taxman updates the ‘little-read’ series with his MSC victory -- a ‘battering ram.’

Contractor group responds to claims it hasn’t supported those caught by the April tax.

Bank puts contracting’s viability in doubt, as all direct PSC hires will cease from September.

Six scenarios set to play out over 183 days; and half hold disadvantages for UK contractors.

The telco and techie are among 17 firms ‘named and shamed’ for unfairness over supplier invoices.

First ever rundown of companies that have broken their prompt payment promise.

Chancellor is asked to take back his ‘simply false’ statement about LCAG.

Signs of a flexible taxman (once you settle) are pleasing; less so his other new clawback power.

Tie-ups with foreign taxmen are paying dividends for a Revenue raising seven times as much.

‘Creditable’ freelancer defeats HMRC’s £124k tax bill, without Substitution and with Mutuality.

HMRC's bid to hold an IR35 enquiry open indefinitely is thwarted using its own vows.

Sixty days to sort your ‘shocking’ limited company engagements stance, MPs tell the corporation.

Be aware of all rules, especially any that put you inside IR35, or you too will be bitten.

TV conman is left £150k out of pocket, by judges who ‘didn’t buy his hopeless claims.’

Treasury turns down 160 MPs fighting for contractors, in a ‘ridiculous whitewash.’

Massive jump in FTT cases, as taxpayers push back a ‘more aggressive’ taxman.

Another April 2020 change will add to the admin-compliance burden, but PSCs might actually like this one.

PSCs will agree 2017's ‘lessons haven’t been learned’ but, for 2020, decisions have been taken.