A tempering of ambition with pragmatism. A shaping of policy with evidence. Both are hopefully signs of the Employment Rights Bill consultations to come.

A ‘win-at-all-costs’ taxman is concerning for those of us who champion contracting, especially given the spring in his step courtesy of the courts.

A new off-payroll working rules impact-assessment holds the HMRC line of not facing up to IR35’s damage.

A Managed Service Company update from the taxman highlights the need for a change to the 17-year-old legislation.

A seemingly small Autumn Budget announcement is actually a big concern, and it’s not even the nearly double-figure rate that’s unsettling.

For contractors and other taxpayers, even celebrities, the government's reach growing is (for once) something to get behind.

Concerned for their wellbeing, Australia just gave employees a right to disconnect. Maybe the UK should do the same, but for its freelance consultants too.

Why Rachel Reeves saying ‘we will take on the tax dodgers’ sounds good in principle, but also has small companies quaking in their (HMRC-compliant) boots.

Not reinventing the wheel is fine for just 5% of the business community; for the remaining vast majority, it’ll just perpetuate abject unfairness.

Next time you hear the phrase the ‘party of business,’ you’d be forgiven for asking ‘which party is that then?’

HMRC no longer being free to continue on as a ‘non-ministerial department’ is important enough to warrant a place in our manifesto – IPSE.

IR35 is meant to deter disguised employment, not genuine freelancing, but something has gone badly wrong -- as Adams, Street-Porter and Moore are now finding out.

Our latest confidence index shows contractor daily fees doing well, despite short-term faith in their own ventures dwindling -- IPSE.

Contrary to the business department’s claims to justify its action, now would have been the perfect time to solve the UK’s status crisis.

The IR35 reform-induced trend of unwilling employment? Like PSLs and holiday pay, ministers owe it to work-seekers to intervene.