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

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With today’s job market arguably more dynamic than ever, we’ve seen the continued rise of contracting and freelancing across many industries, including its increased popularity within the engineering ...

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 ...

HMRC is stepping up its blacklisting of avoidance schemes, ‘naming and shaming’ four in late August, and seven so far in September. It also updated two existing entries on its blacklist -- Alphasaint ...

Rachel Reeves today hit both umbrella and limited company contractors at Autumn Budget 2024, as part of a £40billion tax raid. In her budget speech, the chancellor said the government would move ...

Three tax avoidance schemes got blacklisted by HMRC in June and three in July too, indicating “many contractors are still being duped”. In fact, early last month, HMRC ‘named and shamed’ Cube Umbrella ...