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Payslips, holiday pay, deductions and your rights. 180 articles, newest first.
Guide Umbrella companies
How the UK contractor sector is set to be shaken up by RTW expanding to alternative work arrangements, including checks every time you jump umbrella, agency checks not…
Guide Umbrella companies
Is a conventional umbrella company still the only way to get paid inside IR35? Far from it — as healthcare, education, logistics, driving and construction contractors…
Guide Umbrella companies
Key aspects of JSL rules for Managed Service Providers appear underreported, belying the importance of the UK contractor supply chain’s new gatekeeper of compliance.
Guide Umbrella companies
Despite the new requirement to use a registered DBS umbrella, ‘Enhanced’ just got more like ‘Basic,’ in a move that Boney M and other contractors will welcome.
Guide Umbrella companies
How contractors can safeguard against the lack of choice, changes, and disruption threatened by April’s brolly legislation.
Guide Umbrella companies
Untruths about ITEPA’s new Chapter 11 umbrella company rules are coming thick and fast. Here’s 5 not to be taken in by.
Guide Umbrella companies
An imagining of an umbrella contractor’s life ‘on the ground’ after April 2026, with a focus on the practical effects of the main principles of Joint & Several Liability.
Guide Umbrella companies
It has teeth, but draft legislation imposing JSL on umbrella companies’ clients can be managed, and mitigated -- FCSA.
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How a new concept and new definition are just some of the many changes due to shake-up umbrella company working as a contractor.
Guide Umbrella companies
Tax lawyer Rebecca Seeley Harris demystifies HMRC’s new ‘direction of travel,’ effective from April 6th 2026.
Guide Umbrella companies
LITRG: As part of helping the unrepresented be informed, we’re calling in technology to automate your next deductions double-check.
Guide Umbrella companies
As two brollies got told this month, an umbrella company must still pay its contractors even when it is out of pocket.
Guide Umbrella companies
The cost per brolly and brolly employee of Rachel Reeves’ £25billion increase in National Insurance Contributions; laid bare.
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A recap of the brolly ‘D-Day’ eight years ago, ahead of another (potential) upending this coming Wednesday.
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Despite some quick and shrewd learning from HMRC, the law in 2024/25 still doesn’t entirely prohibit expenses claims.
Contractors' Questions Umbrella companies
An umbrella suspected of putting a contractor’s expenses on the ‘too difficult’ pile simply needs to use a little-known mechanism, ‘YEA FPS.’
Contractors' Questions Umbrella companies
Tax relief tips for an ‘ignorant’ contractor, whose goodwill is eligible for -- and deserving of -- modest reimbursement.
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Top five steps to take when the fear or reality of non-payment of wages unfolds.
Contractors' Questions Umbrella companies
Salary-sacrifice and ‘relief at source’ are the pensions options for an umbrella contractor stung by an unexpected £4,000 tax bill.
Contractors' Questions Umbrella companies
A would-be limited company contractor is right that umbrellas are not interested in his IP goals, and nor should they be.
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A 10-step umbrella company functionality manual, in order of doing, for users.
Guide Umbrella companies
A seven-point checklist to refer to -- for umbrella contractors with doubts about their payday document.
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Seven sure-fire ways to stay safe from schemes dressing up as umbrellas.
