None of us ever appears quite as we hope, particularly if you miss this Wednesday’s webinar and then get checked out via ‘LinkedIn Recruiter.’

If PAYE/NICs to the taxman fall short under both Chapters 11 and 7, the top agency or MSP is on the hook. And if there’s no agency or no umbrella, the end-client is on the hook.

The UK’s new SBC Emma Jones exclusively invites ContractorUK readers to respond to ‘Late Payments: tackling poor payment practices.’

Policy-makers’ focus on 665,000 Personal Service Companies must be sharpened to untangle them from the web that successive governments have ensnared them in.

Nine judges have 13 weeks to whittle down 118 finalists to 30 winners -- only those who ‘truly go above and beyond’ for contractors.

Agencies and end-clients appear to be hogging the JSL liability limelight. But ‘relevant party’ means there’s room for one more.

The ‘toughest crackdown on late payments to SMEs in a generation’ could potentially ‘bring super slow payers up to speed,’ or it might merely be 'tinkering around the edges.’

HMRC’s ‘retrospective due diligence’ -- revisiting MSC determinations mid-appeal to request the actual income data -- is unprecedented. So too will be the FTT’s decision in just six months.

Contrary to dangerous assumptions, it’s end-clients who face joint and several liability for agency contractors’ PAYE/NIC debts, unless an umbrella company is involved.

FCSA says it’s legally reviewing a range of tax proposals, because it has found them wanting on fairness, proportionality, clarity and viability.

The taxman just turned down an opportunity to ‘help the contractor supply chain,’ on the grounds of risk, length and uncertainty.

Official or not, a delay to an arduous filing change for micro and small company directors is a U-turn we can all get behind.

What steps contractors can take before their agency joins the hundreds going bust -- including ‘Top 10 hacks to survive staffing firms shutting down.’

Relief as L-Day passes without 'shockers,' despite a new legal definition of ‘umbrella company,’ and the novel concept of the ‘purported umbrella’.

The ERB’s ‘threat of rising costs’ kept hirers in ‘wait and see’ mode in June, denying IT contractors the chance to capitalise on May’s uptick.

A ‘big shift’ on supply chain accountability and non-compliance risk in the UK contractor sector is imminent.

Soulless dross that Artificial Intelligence like ChatGPT is churning out is the CV market’s biggest problem, not CVs themselves.

All supply chain parties are bracing themselves for Finance Bill 2026, the ERB, and JSL legislation for umbrella companies.

With dividends’ future uncertain, it’s probably now a case of ‘every little helps,’ and that includes making your spouse a shareholder.

How contractor recruitment agencies appear to be caught between two competing pieces of legislation, and what navigating the push-pull needs to involve.

‘Named and shamed’ avoidance schemes are taking keywords associated with contracting for their names. Or just potentially trading off someone else’s.

It might be legislation to address umbrella companies, but JSL means it’s agencies that must try to survive and not get wiped out.

A new freelance champion is coming. Here’s three things that need to happen next for it to more than just symbolically lift contracting.

Keeping ‘business’ separate from ‘personal’ is among the main points of the darts pro who’s been disqualified.

APSCo: Contractors’ agencies aren’t set to bear the brunt of everything under the 2026-27 brolly shake-up.

The IT contractor jobs market climbs to an 18-month high, thanks to heftier employment costs and projects getting ‘cautious green lights.’

A rethink by end-hirers on how to structure and allocate resources bodes well for IT contractors, says staffing giant Robert Half.

What steps umbrella employees should take to prepare for the new ‘JSL’ legislation (includes some urgent actions if you’re using a tax avoidance scheme).

Umbrellas get to retain their ERN and continue PAYE operations, while recruiters still ‘bear the brunt,’ under an updated version of HMRC’s incoming legislation.

Chancellor refrains from a £5k dividend raid (for now), while saying there won’t be a rerun of last autumn’s bruising.

Replacing like-for-like would be lamentable, even if BritCard is apparently going to be free and seamless technology.

Although the truth isn’t getting in the way of a good LinkedIn post, there are genuine lessons to learn from IT director Ben Wicken v Akita Systems Ltd.

TV host Ant Middleton is among the famous (and not-so-famous) faces falling foul of the Insolvency Service, with disqualification orders in just three cases totalling 16 years.

A leaked memo from the deputy PM to the chancellor asks for a £5,000+ cut to limited company contractor take-home pay.

This government (like the last) cannot settle on the self-employed, subjecting them to a never-ending, legislative merry-go-round.

There’s a new witty banner on LinkedIn. But it doesn’t filter to agencies, nor does it give the outside IR35 points you probably want.

What will your end-clients identify as? That is the question an HMRC update sets up as significant for April 6th 2027.

Accreditation body welcomes Lord Holmes’ clause to subject every ‘employment business participating in employment arrangements’ to a ‘licensing authority.’

Zero-hours workers are today’s IT contractors from the 1990s; HMRC’s thinking needs to catch up with that reality. 

A slight adjustment to the government’s train of thought could avoid derailing the umbrella industry for the 700,000 employees who rely on it.