Latest Contractor Guides

Know the HMRC hoops to jump through to register for self-employment in the UK.

Revealed: the paperwork bound to impress your contractor mortgage lender.

Two pages; three pages; how about four pages? For some job-seekers in 2024, CV length won’t even matter.

An overview for contractors on the overdue but massively welcome resolution to the ‘double-taxation’ of IR35.

Despite what agencies, and potentially clients might have you believe, they can’t just contract themselves out of a legal obligation.

Some parts are overdue, but the taxman’s agency-brolly guidance gives recruiters less wiggle room, and sends contractors unmistakable signals when to be outraged.

What goes into working out a gross annual salary using daily rate (and vice versa).

Small but significant tweaks to the UK’s ISA landscape could make contractors happier investors, despite groans and some grumpiness.

The big considerations to make before, upon, and after setting your fees as a temporary technologist for another 12 months.

The admin side to the most complicated of business expenses, and how it could save you if an inspector calls.

Why PRR is one of the best tax reliefs going, and how to take advantage of it as a PSC.

Unfettered substitution as a sign-post to ‘no employment relationship’ is a top takeaway from the food courier firm’s legal win.

With reward comes risk, as while it can be fulfilling and fruitful, being a contractor at the same time as an employee isn’t for the faint-hearted.

Lacking boldness, relevance and even substance, yesterday’s chancellor is one that contractors who have property will want to forget.

Maybe chancellor Jeremy Hunt wouldn’t today be under as much pressure to regulate them if all brollies did these five, as standard.