From business planning to sorting your accounts, starting out as a contractor can feel like a lot. Here’s how new contractors can forget the faff and hit the ground running.

An HMRC update clarifies that while the starting gun may be unholstered in April 2026, it won’t be fired until April 2027.

Examples of good practice for umbrella companies’ isn’t a fishing expedition. Even if some of the spelt out legal duties could be checked up on.

Our client based in Birmingham is looking for a Support Analyst. Due to nature of the role candidates need to hold current DV + NPPV3 clearance. This role is fully onsite. Key Tasks The post holder ...

On August 22nd 2018, HMRC published a response to a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, for details of status cases that have been tested against its Check Employment Status for Tax ...

Industry-specific skills and qualifications are a gateway to higher earnings and career progression. But for many contractors, taking time out to invest in training is not a top priority -- ...

There’s something to be said for the contracting sector’s desired conciliation service because such a channel for negotiation or mediation is what one-man bands are increasingly expected to turn to as ...

Knowing now, as we do, that HMRC’s plan to restrict PSCs in the public sector isn’t going to be made extinct a la ‘controlling persons’ proposal still leaves the contractor sector with an elephant in ...

He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...

In the first IR35 judgment issued for seven years, the First-Tier Tribunal has decided in favour of HMRC resulting in a colossal liability for the appellant of more than £400,000, writes Martyn ...

Back when it was a year to the month of the seminal off-payroll rules, our members and us were told the following by a senior policy adviser at HMRC, writes Julia Kermode, chief executive of the ...