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The rise of AI and the self-employed is why one proposal has become eight.

Apps are changing financial services’ reputation from rate-enhancer to life-enricher. Are you benefiting?

Digital, micro and young businesses called to compete in a national contest.

It’s not for the faint-hearted, but fixing the higgledy-piggledy may be your lucrative niche.

A foul-mouthed Revenue staffer is recorded swearing at a ‘gobsmacked’ caller.

The UK’s ‘resilient, determined problem-solvers’ shrug off Brexit and IR35 reform.

The biggest threat to your livelihood? Probably. And you’ve just a few hours to fight it.

Three if not four measures are all it takes to support those who work for themselves -- IPSE.

A little over 48hours left to help safeguard our economic and professional futures.

Second highest reading for contractors, thanks to heat-hit hirers rethinking.

Thanks to a few good agents, 85 days just became 29 days – albeit only for a ‘short period.’

Yet again a certain taxman can’t catch a contractor, even though this time HMRC was the client.

Both private firms and public processes accused of pushing a 'Merry-Go-Round culture.'

At-a-glance: how to build quality and effectiveness into the ‘contracting out’ model.

The views of empire-builders among contractors? Possibly. Their targets? Not so much, finds IPSE.

Through the HMRC Looking-Glass is an odd world where only ‘outside’ decisions are penalised.

Battle-weary PSCs, send your evidence of blanketing to help keep the heat on HMRC.

A seemingly anodyne PDF on the 2019 Loan Charge is met with rebuffs, questions and letters.

The commercial threat posed to their PSC is behind contractors refusing AMS’s terms.

Contractor sector warns the OTS that its PAYE plan has 'unintended consequences.'

The clock is ticking for taxpayers brought into the split-bill system due to the 'dividend drop.'

Having not first succeeded, LCAG is trying again to raise the Revenue’s CEO about tax-inspired suicide attempts.

Our call to the taxman to set up a suicide helpline has been answered, disgracefully -- LCAG.

‘We want to help’ claims the Revenue, ‘but we can only help those who come forward.’

A status lawyer sums up recent implications for contractors, and says how HMRC can be silenced.

Unprecedented, company-crippling payment terms will undergo their first test on Friday.

Far off May’s peak, growth in IT contractor demand has now reverted to Q1 territory.

Mel Stride MP tackled for uttering what critics count to be four falsehoods.

Treasury minister written to for his ‘astonishing, appalling, fundamentally untrue’ reply.

New payment terms slammed as ‘another nail in the public sector contracting coffin.'

There’s a crossover into Big and Artificial, yet today it’s ‘old’ Data skills which drive contractor demand.

‘Far from just erring on tax forms, applicants told a £10,000 lie to remain in the UK.’

Two cases of contractor mislabelling require a four-fold definition, says IPSE.

'Character and conduct' of a freelance techie being sullied by a 'guilty until innocent approach.'

Contractors and others who set their own hours will be less tempted to show work the red card.

Pay gap and permie growth losing out, thanks to more females joining the fold.

People phoning in to kill themselves over backdated tax is overrunning a lobbyist.

What the first responder to ‘countless’ suicide attempts over retrospection is telling the taxman.

New anti-money laundering rules will be the eye of a perfect legislative storm from Tuesday.

Telling lies and turning blind eyes if IR35 changes could put PSCs' partners in the dock.