REC finds IT contractor demand inched downwards in January, but Reed tells ContractorUK it isn’t stalling, is consistent, and ...

Modernising the Agency Work Regulatory Framework,’ marks a HUGE step towards ending the ‘grey area’ for contractors.

A new technical note shows the taxman taking with one hand and giving with the other. He must be persuaded (or instructed) to ditch his balance sheet-led approach.

"The withdrawal of an Employment Rights Bill amendment isn't the last contractors will hear of umbrella company licensing authority and umbrella company regulation. Not if we have anything to do with ...

HMRC will unveil ‘CEST 2.0’, a new and hopefully improved version of its IR35 status-testing tool, later today, ContractorUK understands. An update to Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) made 40 ...

You may have noticed, HMRC is on a roll. Revenue & Customs seems to be winning all its recent IR35 tribunals and, in the main, doing so emphatically. Several cases have made their way to the Upper ...

Defra has had to pay HMRC an additional £23.3million for getting IR35 wrong, taking its total liability for off-payroll errors to a swingeing £86.5million. The Department for Environment, Food and ...

It’s today reported by ContractorUK that Optimum Pay Group -- an umbrella company -- has gone into liquidation, leaving many of its contractors unpaid. Our research shows that Optimum consisted of a ...

A slap on the wrist for a director whose ‘legal alternatives to using insolvency practitioners’ made £7.6m disappear is worrying bonafide PSC advisers. Neville Taylor, a listed director to over 400 ...

The type of indemnity clause under discussion is one which the hirer has designed to rely upon in the event that HMRC pursues a claim for IR35 taxes. In my article last week for ContractorUK. ‘Four ...

Over-reliance on a weak set of IR35-related arguments has defeated the tax appeal of BBC actor Robert Glenister, leaving the star of Hustle almost £150k out of pocket. At a tribunal last month, two UT ...

I wish to cut through it rather than add to it, but there is rather a lot of noise around the new ‘Chapter 11’ Joint & Several Liability (JSL) rules for umbrella companies, and how they’ll sit ...