Chancellor is put on notice that rushing the PAYE shift risks ‘disrupting the supply chain’ and ‘reducing tax receipts to the exchequer.’

A big step towards 'the black' in March makes it the brightest month for IT contractors since November 2023.

Taxman blackens the black mark he’s already put by three companies, while ‘naming and shaming’ four more schemes that he says ‘contractors should exit.’

Ex-HMRC veteran tells ContractorUK that IT contractors could help his ‘focussed’ review, even if it is a ‘disappointingly narrow’ focus according to some.

Rachel Reeves is a chancellor ‘less about anything new and more about reaffirmation,’ so the ‘un-merry-go-round’ for UK contracting continues.

Despite a lean statement with no ‘further tax rises,’ umbrella and limited company workers aren’t off the hook, due to a ‘soon-to-be reinvigorated HMRC.’

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

Four umbrella regulation areas get opened up, next to two new points, and one very uncertain part with potentially ‘huge impact.’

As HMRC rapidly blacklists scores more tax avoidance schemes, the focus shifts to whether FCSA should become keeper of a ‘naughty list.’

A ‘cog in the wheel’ who spun ‘legal alternatives to using insolvency practitioners’ to distressed IT firms is disqualified, after £7.6million in assets goes unaccounted for.

REC: No New Year let up in economic uncertainty, ahead of April tax rises, is staying the hands of business.

One change to Business Asset Disposal Relief is already tripping up directors, ahead of another in April that will sting an estimated 264,000.

Criticisms that still dog Sir Amyas Morse’s work are already Ray McCann’s to squelch, as he begins a ‘skewed brief’ that makes a ‘sham’ of Rachel Reeves’ promise.

IR35 advisers risk getting ahead of themselves by saying one ‘highly fact-sensitive’ case is a sign of things to come from contractors (bar those ‘workers’ who’ve contracted via Tripod).

‘Bamboozled, frustrated and ready to give up’ IT contractors reminded that Christmas is partly behind a new low of four-and-a-half years.

The FCSA warns the Treasury’s James Murray MP that without intervention on multiple fronts, the UK’s temporary labour supply chain could collapse.

The Stevenage-based umbrella is warning of a copycat, potentially preying on contractors, agencies, and its own reputation.

Experts on contractors’ cash find a poll that was on the money in 2024 overestimating the depth and frequency of base rate reductions in 2025.

IR35, tax and umbrella company advisers are hoping the chancellor uses her second fiscal package to ‘steady the ship’ -- by rescinding April’s employer NIC changes.

Questions about the taxman’s Litigation and Settlement Strategy are being asked, even more so than who offered, who conceded, and how much.