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.

Loan Charge contractors, it’s time to keep close to HMRC’s advice

In an event-run world of murky twilight, shifting sands, and contrasting views, toe the line.

Contractors’ Questions: Would umbrella contracting in the same skill scupper my Entrepreneurs’ Relief claim?

Cancelling salary, and then even the company, looks the safest tax path for a cyber security expert.

Contractors’ Questions: What’s the most taxing foreign city for UK contractors?

A high in-country liability is now a strong sign that it’s lucrative, not loss-making.

Contractors’ Questions: What’s the most taxing foreign city for UK contractors?

A high in-country liability is now a strong sign that it’s lucrative, not loss-making.

IT contractor demand scraped growth in October

Slowdown hits just as the Brexit extension brings hirers back from the brink.

Untangling how NHS Digital got IR35 status wrong to the tune of £4.3m

A status squaring-off between two public sector giants has led to a potentially calculated throwing in of the towel.

Contracting Awards 2019: winners in full

The UK contractor industry’s first ever awards ceremony was a resounding success. For these 20 firms especially.

HMRC launches IR35 probe into Transport for London contractors

‘No need to be concerned?’ Or the start of a ‘guilty until proven otherwise fishing expedition’?

Contractors, here’s the IT skills to help you ride out 2020’s uncertainty

Five specialisms that are ‘hot’ right now, and five more to get you through the cold snap.

Contractors’ Questions: Which European cities are lucrative for expats, despite higher living costs?

Where’s simplest to be self-employed overseas rarely adds up to where’s also profitable.

Patchy preparation for IR35 off-payroll rule changes blamed on HMRC

The problem of a private sector too ‘unaware’ of ‘fundamental change’ is pinned on the taxman.

Switzerland tops 2019 list of lucrative European contracting nations

But the Zurich-led country won’t let you use your limited, not that it matters if money talks.

'December general election makes January Loan Charge deadline unfair'

MPs say going to the polls on the 12th makes the disclosure requirement on the 31st ‘illegitimate.’

Switzerland tops 2019 list of lucrative European contracting nations

But the Zurich-led country won’t let you use your limited, not that it matters if money talks.

Limited company directors, with HMRC, it’s business -- and personal

A need-to-know on expenses and taxation, where the corporate and individual co-exist.