The chancellor giveth warm words to 'working people' but taketh more of contractors' incomes via stealth tax, dividends, and NI on £2k-plus pensions contributions. Contractor measures at Autumn Budget ...

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

An ignoble nine directors are a warning not to ignore, especially for contractors with BBL concerns who are about to close. The Covid inquiry isn't the only brutal hangover from the pandemic to give ...

A behind-closed-doors session for the Conservatives to work out their IR35 position posed four big questions to contractors’ ...

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 “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.

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 ...

A few good reasons why the 'token gesture' should avoid the axe probably need offsetting against alignment and adjustment risks to dividends on Nov 26th. With the Autumn Budget 2025 on the horizon, ...

Natural Resources Wales (NRW) has announced that its IR35 mistakes engaging contractors have resulted in a £14.6million settlement with HMRC. The Welsh government environment agency also said HMRC had ...

For contractors to assess themselves under the IR35 legislation, it is necessary to subdivide the key IR35 status factor of 'Control' into the 'when', the 'what', the 'where' and the 'how,' of ...

IR35 substitution is often labelled as a key test for employment status determination, though the IR35 legislation actually tests not whether an individual contractor can send a substitute, but rather ...