Historical concessions to ‘draconian’ Loan Charge 2019 welcomed, broadly

Almost 40,000 taxpayer-contractors will get financial relief under the Sir Amyas Morse Review.

Before you log off for Christmas contractors, are your company accounts sorted for Dec 31st?

Just what you’ve always wanted: the gift of an excuse to escape the in-laws over the festivities and file in solitude.

Contractor tax experts draw up CEST advice for clients’ New Year IR35 tests

‘Health warnings’ going into 11th hour guidance for hirers who are set on HMRC’s tool from January.

Major brands shut shop on limited company contractors, and not just for Christmas

GSK, Wells Fargo, Aberdeen Standard Life and Rolls-Royce drive PSCs out of their ranks -- for good.

What’s really behind December’s slew of companies canning PSC contractors

Risk is calling almost all the shots being fired at ‘Ltd’ suppliers. The government ought now to listen.

IR35 in 2019: a status expert's review of the year

From HMRC defeats to knee-jerk banks, 2019 was eventful for contractors. But 2020 is set to be huge.

IR35 reform: Weighing up National Insurance liabilities post-April 2020

Overview of one of the most confusing tax aspects to contractors, and how the off-payroll rules complicate it further.

Company positions on IR35 private sector reform April 2020

Find out which businesses have already made decisions about how they will engage with contractors next year.

What contractors should ask recruitment agencies about IR35 reform

Four off-payroll fundamentals that PSC workers can’t afford not to broach. And in order.

My message to buoyant Boris Johnson on behalf of a crippled contractor workforce

Forget events prime minister, it’s timings (IR35, the Loan Charge) that risks decimating the freelance sector.

Contractor sector split over its IR35 reform review approach

Change it, shelve it or scrap it outright? The review could be as divisive as the legislation itself.

Conservatives stomp to victory at General Election 2019, helped by contractors

Despite being the last major party to pledge an IR35 reform review, it’s a resounding win for Boris Johnson and his Tories.

Taxman translates what he means on CEST by ‘make…’ and ‘check…’

Confusion-cleared-up? Logic? Or a sign of just how convoluted IR35 has become?

When contractors should take a company to court over late or non-payment

The three ducks you need to have in a row before you take a payment row before a judge.

Contractors put under review at Santander, banned at JP Morgan, Low Level Waste Ltd

A radioactive waste operator joins more banks in taking the nuclear option to IR35 reform.

Tories and Labour plan to unveil Budget 2020 in February

PSCs to soon have ‘IR35 certainty,’ even if that means getting just 8 weeks’ lead time.

REC makes IR35 demands, as uncertainty ‘plays havoc’ with hiring

Agency body asks the next government to halt reform, given IT contractor demand is already in the red.

Labour backtracks on ‘halt IR35 reform’ pledge

The party’s vow to axe April’s rules is ‘clarified’ as a plan to look at them and seek a replacement.

Rebecca Long-Bailey MP on IR35 reform – radio interview transcript

Word-for-word: what Labour has now put on the record about April 2020's rules.

Dormancy, the ideal halfway house to shelter contractors from the IR35 reform storm?

Pausing your PSC may protect you from politicians promising, HMRC attacking and clients still deciding.

Freelance body rubbishes new CEST for omitting Mutuality

Despite the tweaks, HMRC’s tool is still seen as flawed -- as end-users are finding out to their cost.

IR35 reform FAQs: Your April 2020 off-payroll queries answered

The top ten concerns from a law firm’s IR35 roundtable get put to bed.

Loan Charge protest to place seven coffins next to the chancellor

ContractorUK readers called to join today’s demo, designed so Sajid Javid can’t say he wasn’t warned.

Why the Small Business Commissioner’s terms can’t afford to stay

Whoever replaces Paul Uppal should get the SBC’s terms, remit and scope replaced too.

Organize Your Office and Keep it Relevant

Offices and workplaces can get cluttered and messy, so what can you do to organize them? We’ll go over some tips in this article to help you keep your office organized. Have you ever noticed that some items in offices never seem to go away? Well, there’s a reason they don’t. We’ll explain what items have stayed relevant in offices for years.

Office Materials Never Seem To Go Away

We are still using the same things that we did in the 90s. However, the reason they’re still relevant is that people have changed them to suit the newer generation. People will continue to use these timeless items. 

Supplies like staplers, pencil sharpeners, and other office supplies are used daily. They are used so people can do their work in an efficient manner. An office uses copy machines, computers, and file cabinets on a daily basis. Other popular office items are lamination products from USI Laminate. Lamination machines and products are used to protect printed documents and materials from stains, spills, smudges, tears, marks, and abrasions. Laminating a product can also help fight against dirt, moisture, or grease.

Neat and Clean Offices

Let’s start this section off by giving four tips to keep any office clean and neat. Tip number one is filing cabinets. They help to organize the office, keep cluttered files to a minimum, and they will help to keep everything readily available to find simple and easy. However, with this tip, there is also the actual act of filing using the file system, otherwise, this tip doesn’t work. Number two is to help with organization. You can use binders to organize your paperwork. Binders are great to have in offices as they can each contain certain papers relevant to one project. You can create more binders for each project. This will everything you need at a hand’s reach.

There is also organizing your desktop. While it doesn’t affect the office, in particular, it does affect the individual workers. You can organize your desktop by creating folders that contain individual objects. For example, you can create a file named work, and add folders within it. For example, if you are a writer, add in folders like Drama, Comedy, Articles, Blogs, News, Tragedy, etc. This ensures that your work will always have a place to rest, and you don’t have to search through multiple folders to find it.

One good tip to organize your office is to get a labeler, a good one, and use it to label everything that you need to be labeled. A good labeler can help you organize things that you need to know the placement of, such as filing cabinets, folders, bins, and so on.

Things That Are Still Used in Offices Today

Many things are still used in offices and workplaces today. There were a few mentioned in the previous paragraph, but this is going to go more in-depth. One thing that has stayed relevant since its inception is the fax machine. It is one of the most useful tools. People use this daily to get papers signed and sent between people all across the globe. For example, if you work in the United States and you’re doing business with China, if you need them to sign some papers or vice versa, a fax machine is the only way to get the signature.

Another item that has stayed relevant throughout the years is computers. As mentioned in the previous section, computers have been advanced throughout the years to accommodate the people using them.

One particular item that has remained relevant is the copy machine. People always need to copy things and what better way to do it than using a copying machine. Like the other two (computers and fax machines), they have made continuous changes to these items to make them better, faster, and more efficient.

The last item that we’ll talk about is landline phones. Today, everyone has a cell phone and the majority of people don’t have landlines. However, businesses, offices, and workplaces all use landlines. They have stayed relevant because of the stability in communication that a landline gives a company.

There you have a few tips for keeping your office organized. These are some of the basics you will need to be set up with the proper tools.

Contractor sector sceptical over Sajid Javid's vow to review IR35 reform

Chancellor’s pledge for Tories to ‘see if the IR35 changes are right’ fails to win hearts and minds.

Contractors’ Questions: Is a co-working fee an allowable expense for my limited company?

An easily distracted PSC needs to remember just one HMRC sentence as he takes out his membership.

Vodafone joins ‘deluge’ of companies banning limited company contractors over IR35 reform

The telco’s PSC ban could affect many thousands – now, and later if retrospective HMRC fears are realised.

HMRC grants MTD VAT companies extra time on digital links

Your complex or legacy IT system could win you an extension to your HMRC filing date.

Who won contractors’ votes at the IPSE self-employed hustings

Contractor body reveals which politician said what -- and to what effect at its small business pitch-off.

Making your CV IR35-proof: what contractors must do now, and by April 2020

Almost 10 updates to your resumé are required, for old and new IR35 compliance.

Labour in surprise pledge to scrap IR35 reform from April 2020

Jeremy Corbyn’s party goes one better than the Lib Dems, saying stopping IR35 is now official policy.

Is the end nigh for contractors’ prized Entrepreneurs’ Relief?

No matter who wins general election 2019, the winding-up tax break looks like a loser.

HMRC finally updates CEST, making almost 40 changes

Question-heavy, IT sector-friendly, the new live CEST is already ‘confusing the hell’ out of some.

Lib Dem loan charge pledge will ‘give Tories a problem at the polls’

Swinson’s axe-the-Loan-Charge-vow will win her natural Conservative voters, predicts LBC’s Iain Dale.

Labour manifesto 2019: Genuinely self-employed exempted from new worker status proposal

Jeremy Corbyn wants a new employment category for everyone except those in business on their own account.

Contractors’ end-clients handed IR35 reform checklist

WTT endorses 11 actions to help engagers through 11th hour IR35 preparations.

Contractors give guarded welcome to Lib Dem IR35 reform review

It may be outside the public sector, and inside of Whitehall, but a review of off-payroll proposals is ‘freelance-friendly.’

Sir Amyas Morse asked if his Loan Charge Review is already in HMRC’s hands

LCAG fears recommendations are already with the Revenue, in breach of terms.

Schroders using CEST to set contractors’ IR35 status

Respected asset management firm testing its PSCs with HMRC’s discredited tool.

HMRC’s use of barristers in IR35 cases hit by a victorious Helen Fospero

The ITV, Sky News and Channel 5 presenter deals the taxman another status blow.

General election 2019: Party leaders say nothing of IR35 reform to employers

Jo Swinson, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn leave IR35 out of their business community pitches.

What Johnson, Corbyn and Swinson are pledging to contractors

The three party leaders’ new comments hold policy clues for the contractor sector.

Financial firms rethink limited company contractor bans

PSCs at HSBC and M&G get extended until March, as talent and cost alerts persist.

‘Still plan to disclose by Jan 31, even if your would-be MPs make loan charge vows’

Like us, taxpayers should deal in the facts, not some speculative or wished-for outcome -- WTT.

‘Worried’ contractors push to get practical about IR35 reform

The 'vital' contractor workforce speaks up about the off-payroll rules, and it’s hungry for more from agents and clients.

How much April 2020’s changes to IR35 could cost contractors

A contractor accountant tots up the financial impacts of the incoming off-payroll rules.

Royal London and Northern Trust ban PSC contractors, as IR35 reform nears

With just 20 weeks to go, two more financial firms consign PSCs to history. But three other clients are resisting.

Contractors’ Questions: Can I expense a CV and LinkedIn review?

It’s got to be all business (not personal), if you put a résumé and profile on your company.