Ahead of Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget 2025 on 26 November, ContractorUK brings together analysis and reaction from across the contracting sector.

The take-home dent of the chancellor's hike to basic and higher rate dividends goes far (far) beyond 2026/27, because a precedent has now been set. The chancellor's Budget 2025 announcement of a 2 ...

In the absence of any reference to the umbrella company tax reforms in Budget 2025, HMRC published a new, nine-chapter policy paper on November 26th. In line with the HMRC policy paper's contents ...

Today’s perfect storm of pressures on temporary technology workers is greater than ever. All the more reason to dig deep, self-believe and adapt.

Jury service is rarely thought about until you receive the letter. All jurors are selected at random from the electoral register, and there's nothing to stop you getting called up more than once.

The taxman has 14 million reasons to feel like he’s come out on top, even if it is wooden dollars which changed hands four ...

The “interesting” case of the nurse who won at the ET, but who’s now lost at the EAT, contains some key admissions for Labour, as well.

The Intermediaries legislation of 2000 has made life ‘very, very difficult’ for contractors, so it too would be abolished with the OPW rules — Reform UK.

As the government continues to flatter IR35, the data needed to truly gauge the full, detrimental impact of the HMRC rules is conveniently not being disclosed.

Giant Group has admitted its computer systems which pay thousands of umbrella company contractors each week have been hacked. The group’s Giant Pay told contractors on September 22nd that all its ...

Autumn Budget 2024 has eight main areas affecting UK contractors. As reported yesterday and below (‘Umbrella Regulation’), the biggest of the eight will see PAYE responsibility shift from umbrella ...

That work began in July – and I am proud of what we have delivered in just nine months.