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With the IR35 ball soon back in some contractors’ courts, blanketing should ease, but the compliance burden for many individual limited company workers will increase.

REC: No New Year let up in economic uncertainty, ahead of April tax rises, is staying the hands of business.

Unless you’re Michelle Appiah, an appeal of her employment tribunal victory makes much-needed sense.

One change to Business Asset Disposal Relief is already tripping up directors, ahead of another in April that will sting an estimated 264,000.

We need contractors to answer 10 off-payroll working questions, to help us convince the chancellor it’s time for an IR35 fix – IPSE.

My belt and braces step-by-step is best if you’re a tardy contractor already due a £100 HMRC penalty.

At a time of tumbleweed, and goal-setting, consider switching to Energy to tap into a £24bn-and-growing industry.

By potentially overlooking the importance of control, the footballing legend let a couple get past him.

Criticisms that still dog Sir Amyas Morse’s work are already Ray McCann’s to squelch, as he begins a ‘skewed brief’ that makes a ‘sham’ of Rachel Reeves’ promise.

Premium Bonds can see ‘contracting contingency money’ go further than sitting in a savings account.

IR35 advisers risk getting ahead of themselves by saying one ‘highly fact-sensitive’ case is a sign of things to come from contractors (bar those ‘workers’ who’ve contracted via Tripod).

‘Bamboozled, frustrated and ready to give up’ IT contractors reminded that Christmas is partly behind a new low of four-and-a-half years.

A look by someone who’s sold up already at whether April 6th 2026 regulation is going to trigger umbrella mergers, acquisitions by recruitment agencies, or neither.

The FCSA warns the Treasury’s James Murray MP that without intervention on multiple fronts, the UK’s temporary labour supply chain could collapse.

The Stevenage-based umbrella is warning of a copycat, potentially preying on contractors, agencies, and its own reputation.

Experts on contractors’ cash find a poll that was on the money in 2024 overestimating the depth and frequency of base rate reductions in 2025.

A holding of horses might be required for IT contractors seeking a fresh start, especially amid today’s less-than-stellar market.

Previewed and revealed: the ‘hot’ IT contractor skills of next year, their current rates, forecasted rates, and why they’ll be critical.

IR35, tax and umbrella company advisers are hoping the chancellor uses her second fiscal package to ‘steady the ship’ -- by rescinding April’s employer NIC changes.

The interesting (court) case of the would-be contractor unreasonably denied freelance work serves as a cautionary client tale for 2025.

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