For the first time in a long time, the chancellor’s March statement isn’t forecast to be a tax-raising event for the UK’s ...

What’s in store for IT contractors this year, according to a veteran freelance business analyst who’s seen off recessions, AI ...

Where contractors in IT and other key sectors of the UK economy will want to be on the lookout in the year ahead.

While Joint & Several Liability is already triggering requests that deserve short shrift, the Finance Bill alone won’t ...

The concept of being Inside IR35 (or Outside IR35) results from the issue that faced the Inland Revenue in 1999 -- ‘disguised employment,’ writes Danny Batey, senior tax consultant at Markel. HMRC ...

Nowadays, car leasing is more popular than ever before. Your monthly costs are often lower, the car’s maintenance tends to be taken care of, and you don’t have to concern yourself with your vehicle’s ...

The directors of an umbrella company who swindled £45million have been jailed for a total of almost three decades, in what is said to be the UK’s largest ever payroll fraud of its kind. Geoffrey, ...

When you are contracting, you may come across the expression ‘self-billing arrangement’ or ‘self-billing agreement’. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, I will clarify what these potentially opaque ...

Check Employment Status for Tax, or CEST as it’s more commonly known, is fairly controversial to say the least, writes tax lawyer Rebecca Seeley Harris of CEST Training.* Built by HMRC, the online ...

Self-employed, working through their own limited company; Engaged to do work for a particular client; And to all intents and purposes, would be an employee if it wasn’t for the fact of being engaged ...

When a limited company’s directors declare a dividend, two documents must be produced – board meeting minutes and a dividend voucher for each shareholder, writes Zeeshan Anwar, head of compliance at ...

It’s nearly a year since the new IR35 off payroll working rules were introduced into the private sector, requiring all but the smallest of companies to assess their limited company contractors’ ...