Four reasons why contractors should not be taken in by ‘Scrap IR35’ rhetoric, almost regardless of which political quarter it comes from.

Amid practical unknowns and the risk of unintended consequences, the government would do well to remember it already has a ...

The Post Office Ltd becomes the public sector’s single largest off-payroll working compliance failure, ‘sending a clear message’ to the private sector that robust IR35 processes are ‘essential rather ...

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

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

How a court case changes what's now relevant to contractors trying to fight their corner on MOO. This core principle is known as the 'Wage-Work bargain,' which means that there is Mutuality of ...

Giant Group has admitted its computer systems which pay thousands of umbrella company contractors each week have been hacked. The group’s Giant Pay told contractors on September 22nd that all its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

That work began in July – and I am proud of what we have delivered in just nine months.