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.

Why nobody is safe with a Managed Service Company Provider in the contractual chain

With HMRC pursuing both accountants and contractors under MSC rules, the time for action is now.

Should you make your husband or wife a shareholder of your limited company?

Not always easy to broach. Not straightforward. So expectantly, there’s tax savings (with a spouse) to be had.

Contractors, are you keeping your limited company safe with these cyber-security steps?

Log-on to an accountant’s webinar on cyber-security as a PSC, now that hackers have undone a string of contractor service providers.

IR35: Eammon Holmes condemns HMRC as ‘the department of thievery’

The TV presenter goes off-script to tell viewers what he really thinks of the taxman.

MPs probing HMRC Loan Charge receive 'deeply worrying' evidence

The Loan Charge and Taxpayer Fairness APPG is set to reveal the ‘awful situation people are in.’

As a new contractor with lots of permie experience, do I need to bother much with a CV?

‘Your numerous promotions yesteryear won’t count for much in the contractor market, even if you are a 30-year tech veteran.’

How to buy gifts for your clients and claim on expenses

Boost morale, say thanks or just get a little extra out of your limited company. While being aware of HMRC traps.

Advisers to contractors back HMRC finally ‘naming and shaming’ avoidance promoters

Despite it being 15 years overdue, and him still not ‘cutting off the head of the snake,’ the taxman’s new blacklist is being welcomed.

What McCann Media Ltd losing to HMRC on IR35 means for IT contractors

The game of two halves is also a game of opinions – a bit like IR35, which another Sky Sports presenter has been defeated under.

Can my limited company pay for my director’s life insurance?

Paying for death-in-service benefits via your PSC can be non-taxing for you and your loved ones -- if you get it right.

IT contractor launches petition against Preferred Supplier Lists

Sympathies abound but unless the law changes, brollies get regulated, or the EASI intervenes, ‘Faustian deals’ look set to continue.

Boox responds to MSC investigation by HMRC, slamming it as 'misguided'

More contractor accountants getting assessed as MSCPs is ‘obvious,’ but, for now, one firm is fighting back, forcefully.

Is HMRC accusing you of being a Managed Service Company? Control will be the key

The taxman is seeing how far the boundary of the 2007 rules will stretch, to snare perhaps thousands of PSCs in his net.