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.

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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 times.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

"The withdrawal of an Employment Rights Bill amendment isn't the last contractors will hear of umbrella company licensing authority and umbrella company regulation. Not if we have anything to do with ...

To the query many contractors have this time of year (often as the UK’s own weather warms up); ‘Can you run a UK business as a contractor from abroad?’, the answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’ However while ...

It’s no surprise to us at the frontline of limited companies closing and opening that ‘Phoenixing’ was a focus of the National Audit Office probing HMRC this month. Phoenixing is the practice of one ...