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Flow chart on the furlough scheme, for both umbrella and limited company contractors hoping for 80% coverage.

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21st April, 2020 | Coronavirus

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Helen Christopher
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Playing catch-up, not hard ball, is probably why a brolly is barring SSP, yet it can pay 80% of NMW.

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21st April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Stuart Marquis
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'Opting out hardly helps to get paid for time worked. But the real wrongdoing is with your recruiter.'

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20th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Roger Sinclair
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Pandemic or not, a Paris firm wants an economic victim of coronavirus for an immediate start.

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16th April, 2020 | Contracting Overseas

Author
Nikolas Papageorgiou
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Lawyer cautions a contractor about confusing his furloughs, and about challenging IR35 decisions in challenging times.

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15th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Fieldfisher
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This pandemic provides the perfect conditions for limited companies to ask leniency of the taxman.

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14th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Nathan Ross-Sercombe
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Play your cards compliantly if parting with a PSC, to deny HMRC of your final hand.

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10th April, 2020 | Private Sector IR35 Reform

Author
Keith Tully
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By only ‘encouraging’ non-central government clients to pay out, the chancellor is ensuring thousands of contractors get overlooked.

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9th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Nigel Nordone
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Debt recovery expert urges a contractor confused by flat rate and compound to tread lightly.

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8th April, 2020 | Money

Author
Adam Home
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Limited options for a ‘Ltd’ contractor whose start date was deferred due to coronavirus.

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8th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Stuart Marquis
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Legal aid for a limited company contractor whose IR35 case is undermined by his coronavirus hopes.

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6th April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Adrian Marlowe
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Ten good reasons why you can’t afford to ditch your limited company as soon as a client deems you IR35-caught.

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4th April, 2020 | Private Sector IR35 Reform

Author
Helen Christopher
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Overview to the only cash grant PSC owners are being offered during the pandemic.

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3rd April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Joanne Harris
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How a reformed IR35 spells change for your PSC and its contractual partners.

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3rd April, 2020 | Private Sector IR35 Reform

Author
Fieldfisher
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Welcome as it is, a suspension to the wrongful trading rules won’t see limited company contractors right.

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2nd April, 2020 | Coronavirus

Author
Gareth Wilcox