The hoops ‘someone special’ needs to jump through to get a UK temporary worker permit.

As lenders clear the field of 10% deposit mortgages, contractors can still use tactics to avoid getting boxed in.

Reaching your company’s tipping point amid or after covid-19 is understandable. Reaching it alone, unaided, isn’t.

For small contractor businesses, a website may seem like an unnecessary expense. After all, you've built up your business over the years through hard work, repeat contracts with clients, and utilising your network.

They once worked in silos but for contractors today, ‘covid-secure’ cannot be a one-person project.

If the employer obliges, one early covid victim will be both furloughed and freelance.

When saying ‘no’ is feasible, contractually, but inviting of unknowns, risk, and repercussions.

And will do well into the future. But thanks to the housing market’s official reopening, the diagnosis could be a lot worse.

Unclear rules don’t make the consequences any less stiff if PSCs shirk the loans’ terms.

Small company? Contracted-out service? Up against those who hold all the cards, you may not be recognised as either.

It may be the ‘hot coals’ for one PSC’s tax adviser but to use CJRS, the rest of his team might need embracing warmly.

A PSC with an eye on lockdown lifting must also watch two other issues to freelance from Madrid.

Fancy using your own redundancy cash to fund your PSC’s winding-up? No, we didn’t think so -- yet offers abound.

Reasonable care is the key to unlocking if your determination was compliant. If it wasn’t, options are limited.

For a soon-to-be contractor, it’s less of a problem than he thinks but for the UK engager, beware IR35.