Improving IT contractor market, as long-term joblessness falls to near its pre-crisis level.

No longer realistic to hide offshore, says HMRC readying heftier penalties.

In a widely publicised speech, Inland Revenue Chairman Nick Montagu last week pledged vigilance against artificial "tax avoidance" schemes.

Since IR35 was announced various inventive means and schemes have been put forward to circumvent the legislation. But do they really work?

A key IR35 case is set to make headlines next week – the first High Court hearing of an individual IR35 case since the legislation was enacted.

An EAT hearing last week delivered a welcome boost to the campaign to prove that contractors should not be deemed to be employees of the end client.

An expert view on the judgement handed down last Friday at the High Court in the case of Synaptek versus the Inland Revenue, aka the Stutchbury case.

The PCG has called on the Paymaster General not to backdate the tough new tax rules announced by the Inland Revenue in its April tax bulletin.

The Presiding Special Commissioner has released a document explaining how IR35 appeals are conducted, and how the "employment status" of a worker is determined.

CUK have been given information from a Govt source about the as yet unpublished details of the new tax on Small Companies, known as IR591.