What is your financial profile, and how to calculate it as a contractor?

The shrewd won’t skimp on a financial profiling adviser who, in turn, shouldn’t skim over the key financial areas that inform PSC workers of their worth.

Contracting overseas is still limited, but three destinations have an edge as covid restrictions ease

Few and far between are your options for working abroad, although Cyprus looks more of a go-to than Spain and the Netherlands.

Unlike Neil McCann, contractors, keep your eye on the IR35 ball of control, mutuality and personal service

Don’t get caught offside by the taxman with generic contracts; key factors against you, and witnesses that fail to score for your side.

Treasury response to umbrella company call for evidence ‘will be brutal for the FCSA’

Fresh from clearing JSA, the compliance group is told of ‘a lot, lot more’ to come than just a holiday pay pocketing allegation.

Government must realise, thousands of workers in umbrella companies are employed against their will

The IR35 reform-induced trend of unwilling employment? Like PSLs and holiday pay, ministers owe it to work-seekers to intervene.

IR35: Seven in ten contractors forced into umbrella companies

‘Absolutely sickening’ of government to push bonafide business owners into ‘benefit-less’ employment.

With insolvency it seems the numbers don’t lie, but are contractor companies already past the worst of it?

Just like CVLs, insolvencies are going in the wrong direction for the recovery effort. So let’s all hope IR35 determinations continue to turn the corner.