Ask ContractorUK

Ask anything aboutcontracting.

5,578 expert guides and news stories, written for contractors. Ask a question and get a straight answer, with the articles it came from.

Answers come from ContractorUK guides and news only and link to every source. General information, not advice.

ContractorUK AI

Contractor accountants

Reading the closest articles and writing an answer…

ContractorUK guides and news, some of which may be dated. General information, not tax, legal or financial advice. How this works

Latest from the newsroom

All news →

News

Loan Recall Case Study: Amanda

Amanda worked for eight weeks in 2016. She is now 63, retired and a grandmother of six — and almost a decade later, she is still being told that some of the money she…

20 min read

Contractors' Questions

Real questions from readers, each answered by a specialist: accountants, recruiters and other industry advisers.

Got your own?

Ask it at the top of the page. If our guides and news cover it, you get a summary and the articles behind it, usually within ten seconds.

Ask a question

How Ask ContractorUK works

What is Ask ContractorUK?

A search across every guide and news story ContractorUK has published, with a short summary of what those pieces say. Every summary links to the articles it was drawn from, so you can read the full context and check the dates.

Is the answer advice?

No. It is an automated summary of published articles, some of which may be several years old, and it can misread or oversimplify them. Tax and employment rules change, often every April, so treat it as general information, check the linked articles and take professional advice before acting.

Where do the answers come from?

Only from ContractorUK's own articles and guides. The assistant is instructed to use nothing else, every claim it makes should be traceable to a numbered source, and it says so when our guides and news do not cover a question.

What happens to my question?

The question text is sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, under its API terms, to compose the summary. We do not ask who you are and do not store questions against an account; as with any page you visit, the request passes through routine server logs, and your connection address is held for a minute to rate-limit the tool. Popular questions and their answers are cached for a week so they load instantly. We keep the text of questions for 90 days, with nothing that identifies you, so we can see what people ask and improve the answers.

Looking for your next contract?

Thousands of live UK contract roles, with the day rate and IR35 status where the employer gives them.

Browse contract jobs →