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Most predict a boost for contractors; others aren't so sure and foresee 'devastation.'

Contractors speak up about which political party -- and leader -- deserves their cross.

May saw demand for temporary IT skills leap to a level unseen since April 2015.

McDonnel matches Hammond by promising a post-election Budget.

Strangling a golden egg-laying goose? That's what the state is doing to contractors -- IPSE.

Health officials admit their stance on the off-payroll rules was 'not accurate.'

Two specialist IT contractors lead the pack of precise tech skills that clients need.

Significant number of contractors have 'thrown in the towel' since April 6^th.

Unhappy anniversary: the woeful way April's off-payroll rules are playing out.

LinkedIn -- is it really useful or just another social media platform?

Or £2.6bn in the 'best-case scenario' -- IT services continuing to flow unhindered.

End-users want freelancers' niches to help navigate today’s perfect storm.

The big three's key pledges to 'Ltd' workers and contracting.

70% of techies want to leave since 'Leave,' and half as many are put off their own IT biz.

Contractors would lose the £3bn brolly sector under Labour's manifesto pledge.

Wilfully ignorant, or just uninformed? Either way, Corbyn’s brolly ban is bizarre.

Snap election extends your chance to input on 'wholly exclusively and necessarily.'

Brexit and government policy sapping one-person businesses to a 'concerning' level.

Tech body overseeing cyber attacked NHS is 'operating without a permanent leader.'

Health service offers remedies before 'further possibly significant' ransomware attacks hit.

The government-owned bank is wielding its axe over 154 IT contractor jobs.

Where we are now on divorcing from the EU, and how contractors will marry with the process.

Brexit uncertainty isn't stopping clients sourcing the IT contractors they need. 

'We’re not there yet,' says an IT advisory with an eye on robots displacing humans.

Court ruling lets work-seekers with misdemeanours in the past, stay in the past.

Almost a fifth of clients are stumping up incentives to make ex-PSCs stay on.

What the UK's new administration should commit to on June 9th and why.

Staffing giant succumbs to HMRC, foregoing £300m and outlaying about half as much.

But talk of 'working families,' and a vow to hike company tax, will unsettle contractors.

Forget next year’s cut to it, it's the dividend allowance itself that the taxman can't compute.

Tiny traders overwhelmingly plan to keep at it, despite economic worries.

Despite public sector 'chaos,' the track operator signals faith in its off-payroll staff's status.

Digital accounts dropped from Finance Bill, but a 'retrospective IR35 shock' is included.

Labour vows to hit big firms that leave their small suppliers in the financial lurch.

Labour and Tories start tax talk, as a status review and post-election Budget are mooted.

Contractor sector in 'great danger' of off-payroll problems becoming permanent.

CEBR: Limited companies face three times more in MTD costs than the government claims.

How limiting your income can be more financially rewarding than it sounds.

A common status scenario we've seen since April 6th, and what to do about it.

Agencies worrying; clients double-checking, PSCs refusing and the ESS changing.

Uncertainty and unskilled, nervy permies are playing into the hands of IT contractors.

New savings account a 'step in the right direction', but beware the pitfall, says IPSE.

And other tales...so hirers will do more for you than just read your beginning, middle and end.

'More non-permies on premiums, and fewer having rates cut than pre-EU vote.'

'Be ready for HMRC’s challenge if your outside IR35 result hinges on ESS question five.'

Separating fact from fiction about what's now here -- IR35 reform in the public sector.

Revenue recommits to the results of the ESS, following claims they are in doubt.

PSCs behind the ESS quit over IR35 fears, sign-posting a 'bumpy road' for the Revenue.

Taxman tackles a 'contractor' arrangement that disguises income as loyalty points.

Two steps to take before Thursday if you've already been deemed inside IR35.

Getting to grips with how a brolly operates is the key to avoiding any nasty surprises.

Digital imaging boosts the prospects (and clearing times) of paper payments.

Off-payroll angst hits fever pitch on the health service, as compulsion replaces choice.

Recruiters ask MPs if next week's IR35 reform is a baby too big for its pram.

Eight areas where the ESS falls down and needs fixing.

Chancellor's concession is welcomed, but reservations remain over MTD's cost, timing and use.

A real disruptor for their organisation is just a fortnight away, say nine in 10 officers.

April showers on PSCs make payroll firms' pensions a tax shelter worth exploring.

Final set of April 6th rules outlaws clients from making blanket IR35 assessments.

Will April's IR35 legislation leave more PSCs in its wake than last April's T&S rules?

Red-faced chancellor shreds his plan to raid freelancers from 2019.

Get the official word on whether you’re a limited cost trader, and likely to pay more VAT.

Convert to a brolly and so pay more tax than inside IR35, or be gone, PSCs told.

Almost all contractors fear walking out before April will hurt taxpayer-funded bodies.

Get tailored help on the off-payroll rules, to work out what 23 days’ time means for you.

Budget's biggest windfall is by setting the break-evens at £2,000, £8,667 and £10,092.

Theresa May's intervention is welcomed, yet up to £700 more in Class 4 is still incoming.

Varying levels of outcry reflect varying levels of tax, but your new liability is capped at £1,143.

Planning, info and advice are the best triple-lock to protect against Hammond's squeeze.

£3,000 hike in PSCs' taxable income seen as a lesser evil than extending off-payroll rules.

Philip Hammond delivers his first Budget, to prepare Britain for a 'fairer' future.

IFA: Will the chancellor strike the right (or wrong) notes for your personal finances?

Budget 2017 fears compel the first commercial outfit to begin banishing 'Ltd' workers.

'Courts have already ruled against the flawed approach that HMRC is still evolving.'

Another expert says PSCs with commercial clients could be brought into scope on Wednesday.

Contractors should look (at these figures) before they leap into an umbrella company before April 6th.

Check your status for tax, invites HMRC, opening the ESS -- in all but name.

Fee-payers must decide PSCs’ status before using the later than promised ESS.

The options are unfortunately few and far between for PSCs owed at least £250,000.

Local government leaders team up to push IR35 reforms back until October.

The key announcements that brolly users and PSCs will hear from Hammond.

Bosses' Brexit concerns allayed, as more 'exceptional' techies are due in from overseas.

Scepticism about the late payments tsar remerges, just as its debut is set in stone.

Beeb investigation finding ‘unfairness’ hailed as grounds to close all brollies.

Cautious chancellor unlikely to move off-payroll rule liability, but a 'duty of care' is feasible.

South Pacific’s 'tech and innovation capital' offers IT candidates a career trip of a life-time. 

No tax software inside most small ventures will make MTD a hard slog, survey suggests.

Off-payroll techies at Guy's & St Thomas' say a £16.5m project will grind to a halt when they quit.

Latest stance on the off-payroll rules is released, just as the tool to bed them in isn't.

Contractors seen in the collateral from April's clampdown on the popular VAT scheme.

PSCs and their agents will find a new 'cornerstone' just as pointed as umbrellas.

Cops give wannabe techie a driving ban instead of IT support role.

1,700 'Ltd' workers to leave the government sector within the next seven weeks.

New series on what agencies make of public sector IR35 reform starts with this Q&A.

How the public sector might look to IT contractors in a few months' time.

Half a dozen new ways for commerce to flow are already changing industries.

January was buoyant, but dry if you wanted to cash-in on IT temp shortages.

HMRC hints at a let-off, saying your e-account will only cost you hundreds, not thousands.

Off-payroll rules seen as a springboard for HMRC to investigate contracts before April.

'Aggressive tree-shaking' exercise at DE&S, as PSCs are told to comply (somehow) or get out.