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IR35 in flux means it’s vital to optimise your dividends, as a clawback is almost here.

The recruiter’s UK bottom line is improving thanks to IT contractor demand rising.

What ‘Tigger-like’ Hammond said yesterday -- no longer summarised, but still edited by the Treasury.

Hammond stresses the need for a balanced approach as he recommits to entrepreneurs.

IPSE: Hammond should utilise the highly-skilled, not hinder their growth with further IR35 reform.

Tomorrow could hear fired the starting pistol Hammond brandished in November.

Like the Terminator, ATS is pre-programmed and affects lives. Can you succeed amid the rise of the machines?

The ‘hot’ IT freelancers list is shrinking as demand is holding up, but signs of caution persist.

The taxman’s IR35 win at the BBC shouldn’t scare genuinely self-employed contractors.

Data watchdog clearly sprinting to keep pace with May 25th preparation queries.

What contractors want in 13 days’ time, and what (if anything) they’ll get.

A slump in live IT contractor assignments just got deeper for the third month in a row.

Details of where you live soon to be omitted in Companies House filings.

A real umbrella would have thwarted a first of its kind bogus self-employment case.

Seven near certainties of IR35 reform in the private sector.

No denials that ‘strategic options’ for SJD Accountancy’s parent are being looked at.

Profits squeeze predicted -- except for a small band of associate professionals.

An analysis of how a PSC at BBC News made headlines that neither party will have wanted.

Taxman gets some of the claims of an ‘IR35-compliant’ solutions firm taken offline.

Feeling the squeeze amid uncertainty, contractors feel up against it on multiple fronts.

Only 99 days to go until your data responsibilities are overhauled. Will you be ready?

A few forces against IT contractors are overrun by those in favour of them.

More than a dozen types of IT contractor are proving hard for agencies to source.

A call to action is among the departing thoughts of an IR35 Forum founding member.

Who said what, and what’s afoot with the off-payroll rules and IR35’s future.

Thanks to Carillion, a new power is set to see contractors' client-debtors taken to court.

One of the world’s first ever freelance coders, and the 'grandmother of the web.'

Armed with a barrister and attacking broadly, an increasingly stubborn HMRC is a warning to all.

Waiting 120 days for an end-user to pay points to trouble; not just tardiness.

Intellectual approach? Patent officials get down with the kids with an IP cartoon series.

Revealed: a three-in-one winner; the most votes ever and painfully, a double-loss.

Who won what at the 11th annual awards voted for by ContractorUK readers.

Spring Statement’s first tip-offs affect house-buyers and investor-business types.

Replacing HMRC’s carrot and stick with ‘publicity’ and ‘details’ is advised to close the tax gap.

Contractor body wants to hear from the great, the young and the new, ahead of a showdown in London.

Bolt-on number 4 for the Warrington contractor accountant seems to add up.

‘Unacceptable’ way to count response times is blasted, after 12minutes became four minutes.

Companies House shares its ‘flagrant 50’ -- the applicants rejected for rudeness.

It’s over to you to decide if your previous company’s closure should be more taxing.

Is reforming the reform the only way the Conservatives can win back the trust of the UK’s two million contractors?