Avoiding running off agency PAYE reference numbers is how the government can avoid destabilising the UK’s entire temporary labour market.

Contract workers must adjust to BRPs and ‘clipped’ no longer being acceptable RTW proof (even if you may feel like a second-class job-seeker).

A payroll tax liability-responsibility shift from umbrellas to agencies dangerously throws the baby out with the bathwater. It must be stopped.

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

Three ‘umbrella company’ articles in a row on ContractorUK go some way to showing just how significant changes for umbrella companies and their users might be. But umbrella contractors aren’t the only ...

Late last month, HMRC showed how it wants to radically change the way IR35 works for contractors in the public sector in a set of proposals that are nothing short of worrying, writes Andrew ...

Two pointers in an otherwise largely acceptable viewpoint piece on ContractorUK last week stuck in my craw, writes ex-tax inspector Carolyn Walsh, managing director of Andraste Accounting and CWC ...

LITRG: As part of helping the unrepresented be informed, we’re calling in technology to automate your next deductions double-check.

Off-target. Opaque. Overly complicating an already complicated landscape. Spring Statement must scrap or shelve ‘deemed employer.’ ...