A year in review for contractors on employment status and IR35 reveals that, perhaps ominously, the courts are closing ranks ...

The chancellor may as well have announced ‘While Stocks Last’ on a long-standing retirement saving strategy for inside IR35 ...

The contract tech staffing game needs to change in 2026, or else flaws in the UK’s broken recruitment system will deepen, ...

It’s been mentioned twice recently on ContractorUK, firstly by an umbrella company and then by an overseas working adviser and perhaps it does bear repeating, because the application of the IR35 rules ...

Before IT contractors can explore the depreciation period and rate for their staple items – business laptops and computers, let’s start with some fundamentals like what is depreciation and who decides ...

The Statutory Residence Test (SRT) allows contractors and other individuals to determine residence status for a tax year, writes Kevin Austin, managing director of Access Financial. Each tax year is ...

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 ...

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, ...

IR35 substitution is often labelled as a key test for employment status determination, though the IR35 legislation actually tests not whether an individual contractor can send a substitute, but rather ...

The EU General Data Protection Regulation, the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively referred to as the GDPR in this article), remains a cornerstone of data privacy and protection in both ...

When hiring a contractor, it's important to keep in mind that there is a variety of payment considerations you may wish to explore, so unfortunately there’s no quick and easy answer to the issue of ...

Following significant changes to the Agency Legislation in 2014 designed to tackle false self-employment, the intermediaries reporting requirements came into force from April 2015, with further ...