For the first time in a long time, the chancellor’s March statement isn’t forecast to be a tax-raising event for the UK’s ...

Where contractors in IT and other key sectors of the UK economy will want to be on the lookout in the year ahead.

While Joint & Several Liability is already triggering requests that deserve short shrift, the Finance Bill alone won’t ...

What’s in store for IT contractors this year, according to a veteran freelance business analyst who’s seen off recessions, AI ...

The Statutory Residence Test (SRT) allows contractors and other individuals to determine residence status for a tax year, writes Kevin Austin, managing director of Access Financial. Each tax year is ...

Before IT contractors can explore the depreciation period and rate for their staple items – business laptops and computers, let’s start with some fundamentals like what is depreciation and who decides ...

The concept of being Inside IR35 (or Outside IR35) results from the issue that faced the Inland Revenue in 1999 -- ‘disguised employment,’ writes Danny Batey, senior tax consultant at Markel. HMRC ...

VAT can seem daunting, but as 2025-26 dawns, have you considered making life easier by using the Flat Rate Scheme? In fact, while VAT can be complex, what if there was a way to make Value Added Tax ...

The directors of an umbrella company who swindled £45million have been jailed for a total of almost three decades, in what is said to be the UK’s largest ever payroll fraud of its kind. Geoffrey, ...

The hardest IR35 factor to consider/argue? The biggest IR35 headache for contractors? On both fronts, it's MOO. Mutuality Of Obligations ('MOO' or even sometimes 'MoO') can sometimes be referred to as ...

The TV presenter Adrain Chiles has lost the IR35 appeal brought by HMRC at the Upper Tribunal, in a judgment that holds interest if not implications for other limited company contractors, writes ...

It’s been mentioned twice recently on ContractorUK, firstly by an umbrella company and then by an overseas working adviser and perhaps it does bear repeating, because the application of the IR35 rules ...