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Budgets, HMRC moves and the contracting market. 3,093 articles, newest first.
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A long-promised government consultation on employment status could protect vulnerable workers without undermining genuine contractors. But officials leave inside IR35…
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Two senior solicitors share a debt-collection company with a director of West 28th Street. ContractorUK investigates the links and what they could mean for contractors…
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Before the chancellor even gets to his feet on October 28th, the UK mortgage market is already pulling in two directions. Yet for contractors, the headline rate tells…
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Workers’ rights, not tax, look set to reshape UK contracting under Labour — a prospect my chat with chancellor John Healey reinforced. This month’s Autumn Budget may be…
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Will you still get paid on Friday if your umbrella company is sold? An adviser who’s been in the deal room sets out 10 questions to ask, now that JSL has made running an…
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Not all umbrellas are equal. Two with no written contracts, with ‘their’ workers or their client, and which didn’t actually pay workers themselves, have cost a wind-tech…
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Why now, why all at once — and will Trethowans really take contractors to court after 27 October?
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A contractor who settled historic loans for £1,994 is now being pursued for £131,000 after the settled debt was apparently sold to West 28th Street.
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FCSA has expelled MyPay after HMRC’s winding-up petition, but the umbrella still claims accreditation. An ex-HMRC inspector says steer clear, the REC urges caution, and…
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HMRC reckoned no other impacts of JSL had been identified. Compliant small umbrellas squeezed off agency PSLs tell a different story, as does the growing number of live…
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Robert Walters’ Jason King sets chancellor John Healey three Budget 2026 tasks to boost IT contractor hiring: fund AI skills, speed up security clearance and increase…
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Winners and judges react after the 2026 Contracting Awards in London, where several of last year’s victors successfully defended their titles, the first AI award was…
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Don’t expect an IR35 rewrite on October 28th, say SG Accounting and Bright Ideas. Instead, brace for a tech-led HMRC (Caroola), a small business squeeze (Beansprout), an…
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With Churchill Knight’s tribunal due in November and one contractor facing an alleged £52,700 bill, a former HMRC specialist tests the ‘cruel’ claim, in a world of…
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Four recruiters endorse the REC’s best IT contractor figures in over three years. VIQU IT and Robert Walters see firms investing in tech; Reed says hiring managers are…
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Many contractors knew that loans formed part of their remuneration arrangements. But are the debts being pursued today governed by the rules they actually agreed to?
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Setting up a limited company? Your home address could end up rather more public than you bargained for. From junk mail and identity theft to keeping home and business…
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IPSE’s Josh Toovey was in the room when Andrew Griffith MP pledged to ‘replace, not reform’ IR35. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, he sets out the three IR35 models…
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Andrew Griffith says the next Conservative government will wholesale replace IR35. Two advisers who met him tell ContractorUK what they now want to see — others call it…
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Contractors moving between PSC and umbrella arrangements face a higher risk of HMRC's tax calculation gaffe. Carl Bridges of Caroola Accountancy explains what the tech…
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A new ‘dodgy’ dozen has joined HMRC's avoidance blacklist, which features an offshore trust with a self-voiding clause, three updates to the previously ‘named and shamed…
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The FCSA’s Andy Chamberlain reveals why DBT’s plans could see inside IR35 contractors' assignments cut short and umbrella companies handed guaranteed-hours obligations…
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A slick new HMRC video and detailed policy paper promise clarity and straightforwardness for McCann loan charge settlers. Ten questions from ContractorUK going…
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Contractors were offered protection from historic loans for a fraction of their face value. Years later, some of those loans were reportedly settled for similarly tiny…
