While the crystal ball is as opaque as it gets, it’s clear that the contractor-friendly lender is meeting a need, at least psychologically.

A Managed Service Company update from the taxman highlights the need for a change to the 17-year-old legislation.

Just as umbrella company regulation is doing, the taxman’s talk about his avoidance list appears to be taking the gloss off it.

Photo, headline and job title are key, to entice agents to click beyond their premium product showing you only in ‘snapshot.’

Far from the demise of brollies, new legislation from April 6th 2026 will see many operators thrive.

When the IT contractor who shows up for work isn’t the UK citizen/PSC director who landed the role.

Legislation will have the final word, but we can already say the speculation, misinterpretation, and mischaracterisation appear to have no bounds.

Contractors may be the sole beneficiaries of Labour’s umbrella company regulation plan (which won’t be consulted on).

The cheered-on Covid Corruption Commissioner is set to back strictness for taxpayers and leniency for the taxman (not vice versa), as seen in Ark Angel Ltd v HMRC.

Nineteen ‘exceptional’ companies, six ‘highly commended’ providers, and two individuals. All just got acknowledged as going ‘the extra mile’ for UK IT contracting.

Rigour mortis will surely set into the umbrella industry before April 6th 2026 -- potentially the point of death for umbrellas as we know them today.

The temporary tech jobs market gets a ‘glimmer’ to offset the ‘dire’, but it’s hardly thanks to the chancellor.

There’s no final bill or liability admission. But the Welsh government agency set up to sustainably manage the environment clearly didn’t manage off-payroll worker status properly.

A seemingly small Autumn Budget announcement is actually a big concern, and it’s not even the nearly double-figure rate that’s unsettling.

The definitive guide to eight ‘easy target’ areas the Labour chancellor is hitting to raise many extra billions.

A day looks like a long time in leaky Budget politics, or so suggests the global market reaction to Rachel Reeves being at the helm.

A ‘smiling,’ ‘slashing’ and ‘butchering’ Rachel Reeves 'squeezes the juice from business while not giving enterprise much to get on with business.'

Rachel Reeves unveils a Budget to ‘restore economic stability’ and ‘rebuild Britain.’

Change for contractors and contractors’ workplaces is incoming -- next year, October 2026, and potentially even today too.

Vindicated for its 'reasonableness,' an NHS supplier won’t have to pay our unsympathetic taxman a £250,000 penalty for a late VAT return.