Limited company guide to maternity leave: overview for contractor mums (and dads)-to-be

It’s not quite as easy as ABC totting up how long, or how much you’ll get with your new born.

Key Information Documents are being ignored, at a potentially hefty cost

Reputational damage, EAS penalties and retrospective claims by off-payroll workers. The risks of not sorting KIDs shouldn’t be sniffed at.

Off-payroll rules reminder: When contractors should (and shouldn’t) be paying Employer NI

IR35 confusion is unifying both umbrellas and PSCs as to who’s responsible, liable and the deducting party. Time to clarify.

HMRC in new call to help it tackle disguised remuneration

A Loan Charge successor could mimic IR35 reform by making the supply chain responsible  -- former tax inspector.

Contractors’ Questions: With my CV, am I alone in raging against the machine?

Calm-inducing tips for an irate contractor, convinced his CV rewriter is all programming, no pulse.

Covid-19: Rishi Sunak stands by his scant offering to limited company directors

An almost defiant chancellor tells ‘stranded’ PSCs, ‘it’s not as if you’ve got nothing.’

Contractor tax veteran Simon Dolan to recommence covid-19 legal battle

Passionate about the rights lockdown removed, the persistent entrepreneur is waiting on a court date.

What the chancellor’s OTS review of Capital Gains Tax likely means for contractors

Capital Gains Tax : How will they be scrutinised, and potentially hiked as soon as Autumn Budget 2020.

Making Tax Digital to go ahead from April 2022 for all limited companies

PSCs with turnover under £85k face an online-only future with HMRC returns.

The proof that private sector IR35 reform will trigger a UK worker exodus is me

Cancel your ‘test’ Jesse Norman. I’m leaving on a jet plain don’t know when I’ll be back again.

Unpacking HMRC's non-responsive IR35 reform response to the Lords: practical clues

What changes PSCs can expect (or just hope for) in the official preparations for off-payroll reform.

Contractors' Questions; How to keep my Italian clients while relocating to the UK for consulting?

As if Brexit wasn’t enough, a would-be UK contractor must navigate covid too (but can keep invoicing).

Contractors, the gulf between what the tax gap is and what HMRC wants it to be, is huge

And expecting any official measures to close or underpin it, is like waiting for Godot.

Government reply to Lords' IR35 inquiry criticised as inadequate

Contractor? Expert? MP? Even a Lord? It makes no difference, off-payroll adviser says, you’ll still be ignored.

Government to rip up ‘work from home’ order and defer to engagers

Covid-19 policy change to boost confidence comes as ‘Ltd’ directors say they’re flagging.

IT contractor skills: Covid-19 is causing a changing of the guard, and it’s not over yet

An evolving market for technology skills means evolving demand for its temporary practitioners – Hays.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak personally intervened to stop private sector IR35 reform amendments

Prime minister and chancellor ‘persuaded’ MPs to change their minds, and their votes on the off-payroll delay.

Labour attacked over botched Loan Charge amendment explainer

Sir Keir Starmer’s template-reply to people who’ve lost their livelihoods wins him new followers.

What IR35 off-payroll investigations will look like for contractors from April 2021

HMRC’s public sector performance is probably a sign of things to come, for PSCs, agencies and clients.

Contractors’ Questions: How to avoid landing my new overseas client with a VAT bill?

Supplying Lebanon could be taxing – for the end-user, if they don’t agree to the IT provider’s 'workaround.'

A contractor's covid-19 guide to negotiating your new client and agency contracts

How to push back on ‘hard lines’ while being reasonable, flexible, and not afraid -- even if there is a pandemic on.

Contractors’ Questions: Can I expense new office items now my partner is working from home too?

‘Agree to the purchases for a peaceful lockdown – just don’t put them on your PSC unless you want to hear from HMRC.’

Contractor umbrella companies give warmer welcome to Summer Economic Update 2020

While it may not cover all their costs, brollies are backing Sunak for his £1,000 job retention bonus.

CJRS case: Business owner arrested over £495,000 furlough fraud claim

Taxman’s first ever CJRS detainee is met with warnings he’s unlikely to be the last.

Rishi Sunak’s blind spot for limited company directors is staggering

For people who’ve set up their own company, the news from the chancellor’s summer economic update couldn’t be less summery.

Web Services for Contractors

For small contractor businesses, a website may seem like an unnecessary expense. After all, you've built up your business over the years through hard work, repeat contracts with clients, and utilising your network.

Contractor sector deems Sunak’s Summer Economic Statement 2020 as largely anodyne

Furlough bonus, VAT cut and stamp duty holiday. Yet no respite from IR35 reform, or the reissuing of already discredited off-payroll statements.

Chancellor’s Summer Economic Update 2020: full speech

Rishi Sunak delivers his covid-imposed plan for jobs, which excludes anything new on IR35.

Contractors’ Questions: Should I hand a Spanish client my address, NI number and passport?

Nothing ominous, it’s probably just a KYC procedure hitting a ‘barrera del idioma.’

IT contractor jobs downturn eased dramatically in June

Largest monthly rise in tech contract opportunities will be cheered, but comes with caveats.

Five IT contractor skills you will want to have, as covid-lockdown lifts

Where demand and the money is in the technology sector’s 'new normal.'

Contractors’ Questions: When’s best to draw dividends and salary on maternity leave?

Limited company accountant helps a mum to-be, curious about timing to keep baby expenses from kicking.

Contractor sector rolls up its IR35 sleeves ahead of new off-payroll liability in just 10 months’ time

Sympathies are being expressed. But its practicalities that contractors and their partners are being urged to focus on.

Loan charge contractors switch focus to the courts, peers and HMRC

A voluntary settlement offer is among the options being looked at in wake of NC31’s no-vote.

Contractors’ Questions: Is my PSC’s registered office in England a problem now I’m living in lockdown in Scotland?

Where your company’s address is located has nothing to do with where you trade from, so a virtual office makes virtually no difference.

Government trounces Loan Charge and IR35 amendments, clearing the path for September and April enforcement

Fifty MPs, a letter by the bereaved and a pledge of suicide all fail top the state in its tracks, in a ‘sad,’ ‘shameful’ night in the Commons.

IR35 expert cautions contractors ahead of Finance Bill Report Stage

You’ve had more than enough off-payroll prep time so, instead, lobby agencies and clients, PSCs told.

Furloughed limited company contractors warned of where HMRC will investigate

As the taxman gets armed with 100% penalties for CJRS abuse, experts fear a clawback ‘many years down the road.’