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Contracting News

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‘Wait and see’ mode until Brexit completes has put the brakes on contract billings.

Divisiveness, change and removal. It’s all gone on, but now it’s time to move on.

A lot of off-payroll rule uncertainty looms, but there isn’t a lot of will to stem it. Or is there?

Contractors, it’s time to remove HMRC’s ability to be judge, jury and executioner.

Taxpayers on less than £30k are offered an automatic, ‘no questions asked’ arrangement.

Chancellor to get to his feet two weeks pre-Brexit, a few weeks post-IR35 consultation.

The three things you need to do to help land premiums, not pain, when jumping jobs.

Aside to small fluctuations contractors will welcome, the big move looks like less IR35-inspired hiring of permies.

Leaf-turning by a blinkered, intransigent HMRC is an unlikely prospect -- at least on IR35.

A cross-party group of peers and MPs will probe the April tax’s impact on contractors.

FSB: It’s right to review what could ruin the self-employed, ‘retrospective’ or not.

Knowing yourself is the key to exploiting fierce competition, sharp appetite and rising rates.

CGT not being taken off you doesn’t make you a victim (although you may be).

QC tweets against the ‘spin’ of a taxman who he says should be ‘soul-searching’.

Shortlist you for a detail-orientated environment? Probably not if you can’t spell.

No-deal, so no transition period in the year IR35 toughens, is a growing prospect.

‘The April charge is the sort of taxation that led to the birth of the Magna Carta.’

Save your outrage for HMRC’s ‘external consultant,’ as ‘Sir CEO’ is de rigueur.

Why at this time of year testing the market or playing hardball can be fatal.

No 10 is drawn into the retrospective row, thanks to a Lib Dem MP’s question and amendment.

Demand grew, IT talent gaps opened, but now the uncertainty is even affecting temps.

MPs could today trigger a Treasury review and report on the ‘unfair’ loan charge.

Clients are on a respite from rules-induced work, ahead of Digital dominating in 2019.

APSCo index suggests hirers found their feet following the IR35 Budget wobble.

Taylor’s recommendation to regulate all brollies, not only those for the low-paid, just got accepted.

Thanks for your support in 2018, and get ready to be at the cutting-edge of UK contracting over the next year.

Contractors who collapse will have to pay the taxman second, not fourth, from when IR35 changes.

Victorious newcomers, stalwarts still on top, and the former taxman of the moment.

Who’s won what at the 12th annual awards voted for by you.

Christmas for contractors looks set to be quiet, except for the risk-taking rate-chasers.

IPSE to spotlight the new, the young, and the best, on projects or 'side-hustles.'

The REC finds scarce freelance IT specialisms to have more than doubled.

Contractors will stick to their guns, but most of the unmoved are settlors.

Doing nothing but waiting for HMRC to agree with the Lords isn’t wise (where MTD is concerned).

‘The tide is turning,’ as over 100 MPs join peers and industry figures to denounce ‘monstrous’ legislation.

Multiple failures, and even something sinister, exposed by peers probing the ‘retrospective’ tax.

Lawspeed's Adrian Marlowe announces his stance on the NAO probe into the BBC's usage of PSCs.

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation announces its take on the latest migration figures.

An investigation into ‘Ltd’ TV presenters points to an awful mess, with stark long-term implications.

Some peers and MPs are our modern-day Snark hunters -- and they seek fairness for contractors.