Latest Contractor Guides

Tax and savings tips for a limited company contractor looking to prepare for April 6th 2024.

A deep dive into the HMRC tax compliance check that serves as a foot-in-the-door for IR35 inspectors.

Tax and spending tips on what every limited company director needs to know at this time of year.

Avoid these CV clangers, and you’ll start next year better off than a fair few of your contractor rivals.

Is a written offer by the taxman which is doing the rounds a sign he’s bitten off more than he chew? Probably.  

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.