Simon Moore

IR35, umbrella regulation and Single Worker Status. Labour puts it all off until tomorrow, so it can keep its promise to the masses today.

Autumn Budget’s bung on tech staff hiring is being shored up by the Employment Rights bill and Industrial Strategy.

The taxman’s MoO and Control wins, as substitution seemingly fails, make underway OPW audits ‘risky’ for many.

The taxman’s ‘naming and shaming’ just passed a major milestone, mirroring ‘increasing concern about umbrella supply chains.’

Supreme Court sides with the taxman by ruling that if there’s a contract, there’s mutual obligations -- thereby removing MoO as a future outside IR35 ‘battleground’.

The unknown of October 30th and an opaque Employment Rights Bill are keeping IT 'recruitment and investment plans on hold.'

Sky Sports rugby pundit tackled by the ‘growing trend of UT clashing with FTT on IR35,’ sidelining what happened -- in favour of the hypothetical contract.

Four out of four advisers fear the smart money of Rachel Reeves’ first fiscal statement is on an increase to corporation tax for limited companies.

A former ‘best IT contractor recruitment agency’ talks of repositioning and restructuring, in wake of its profitability taking a ‘significant’ dent.

Taxman says seven avoidance schemes (all employment tax-related) should be avoided, even though contractors often have ‘little choice’ but to use them.

Public rail body run by ex-Revenue boss Sir Jon Thompson hits the buffers, for not managing contractor IR35 status correctly.

Two appeal faults in a row due to a chartered adviser’s mistakes mean we’ll now never know if the Sky tennis pundit’s IR35 status would have been called ‘in’ or ‘out.’

Survey shows not even one in three contractors agree with what end-clients say matters most when workers contemplate a freelance tech role.

July’s REC Report on Jobs shows the ‘subdued’ IT contractor market, with a lack of confidence and renewals, as approaching a grim milestone.

AI bosses question the intelligence of canning a £1.3billion computing investment, aimed at keeping Britain out of the ‘tech slow lane.’

Top advisers put UK IT contracting on warning, even as they call Labour to replace the Tories’ OPW rules with ‘old’ IR35 of 2000.

Software firm tells ContractorUK it gave free coffee and snacks to MSPs, cloud marketplaces and telcos, but not customers. Or at least it tried to.

IT contractors may know it as a fintech company, but an arrangement HMRC says to withdraw from is among six of the newly ‘named and shamed.’

Some 8.5million Windows devices with Blue Screen of Death reminds companies they can’t always know who they’ll need from IT, with what tech skills, or when.

The new Employment Rights Bill to ‘upgrade’ worker protections is unsettling the many non-inside IR35, who are workers but don’t want protecting.