Contractors’ Questions: Do I need Professional Indemnity Insurance after I close my company?

Guarding against the risk of retrospective IR35 investigation is worthwhile, even if your PSC has shut.

'Don’t Tweet if you want your director salary paid during furloughed periods'

Online posting could invalidate your cash claim -- and land you with a fraud charge, PSCs warned.

Treasury irons out finer details of COVID-19 furlough scheme

Like officialdom, advisers to contractors are trying to break down the ‘complex’ CJRS.

Contracting during coronavirus: a PSC contractor’s legal survival guide

Forced to work? Fanatical to work? There’s practical contractual steps to take and a key clause to scrutinise.

Why most limited company contractors’ clients aren’t reversing their IR35 reform status decisions

It’s too long a way back for many engagers so, perversely, it’s the unprepared who are now unburdened.

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme extends to limited company directors

Treasury confirms that CJRS will include PSC workers, but exclude their dividends.

The Contracting Awards 2020 launches to recognise vital contractor service providers

Nominations open to suppliers supporting contractors after a turbulent year, with everything from COVID-19 to IR35 reform.

IR35, Agency Worker Rules or MSC? Choosing the right regime for agency-contractor relationships

A staffing expo revealed real confusion about the current tax rules which catch agencies; let alone next year’s new ones.

Contractors, despite Brexit, with GDPR it’s business as usual, bar these new vital steps

Check. Map. Choose. And other advice to keep your clients and your contractor company data-savvy.  

Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme: what limited company contractors need to know

Assesing if the CJRS covers you isn’t easy. The hard truth is that PSCs may fall through the cracks.

End-clients step in to fill the void of coronavirus support measures for PSCs

Lack of financial help for limited company contractors facing COVID-19 isn’t being ignored at Lloyds.

End-clients step in to fill the void of coronavirus support measures for PSCs

Lack of financial help for limited company contractors facing COVID-19 isn’t being ignored at Lloyds.

Contractors, switching back to ‘inside’ status is the perilous part of IR35 reform’s delay

It’s tempting to take the path of least taxation. But contractors have been here before.

End-clients step in to fill the void of coronavirus support measures for PSCs

Lack of financial help for limited company contractors facing COVID-19 isn’t being ignored at Lloyds.

COVID-19: how the UK's contractor workforce can stay safe from coronavirus

Practical, protective steps for ContractorUK readers to take to avoid contracting COVID-19.

IR35-weary PSCs eye full-time jobs, in spite of ‘permie challenges’

Facing an eventual take-home dent of 40%, it’s reasonable for off-payroll ‘Ltd’ contractors to not limit their options.

Contractor industry mutes IR35 reform delay celebrations

Amid a sense of ‘be careful what you wish for,’ practical concerns for PSCs (and their clients) now pervade.

Government in shock delay to private sector IR35 reform, thanks to peers and covid-19

The off-payroll rules are sensationally shelved until April 2021, in a huge victory for the contractor sector.

Lords lay into HMRC, HMT, as coronavirus revives IR35 reform delay hopes

Peers fume to tax officials that it’s ‘perverse’ not to delay off-payroll amid a catastrophic pandemic.

Contractors, don’t just copy and paste your CV straight into LinkedIn

Just like a certain other problem, there’s no quick fix to getting your offline and online profile in perfect health.

Coronavirus: how contractors, recruiters and clients are coping with COVID-19

What our niche staffing agency and our contractual partners are doing to combat the pandemic.

Contractors' Questions: Is training an allowable expense through my limited company?

Enhancing their existing skillsets is a benefit of PSCs which contractors may exhaust.

IR35 reform: How consultancies should be treating their contractors, if retention is the aim

It doesn’t have to be ‘umbrellas or perish,’ assuming that us PSC-dependent providers take actions.  

How Budget 2020 helps and hits the UK’s contractor workforce

What the chancellor’s measures mean for you, your PSC, your brolly, your pocket.

Contractors embrace Budget 2020 keeping Entrepreneurs’ Relief, as IR35 delay hopes get killed off

Sunak’s ‘contractor-friendly’ ER policy is balanced against the chaos, insult and decimation of his off-payroll rules proceeding.

Budget 2020: chancellor Rishi Sunak’s full speech

Coronavirus dominates the ‘Getting it done’ Budget, under which ER reduces and IR35 reforms from April.

Contractors face dual Budget 'raid' on IR35 and Entrepreneurs’ Relief

All but certain that ‘inexperienced’ Rishi Sunak will remove ER; forge ahead with IR35 reform.

For PSCs whose clients have no UK presence or connection, it's old IR35

Get to grips with the ‘wholly overseas’ off-payroll exclusion, even if you do have eight other elements to mull.

Budget 2020: what limited company contractors can expect

For PSCs who have to navigate it, chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget will probably be a traffic light.

Contractors’ Questions: Will working on two projects at one client break April’s IR35 rules?

Inside-outside status looks likely for a PSC trying to avoid a controlling manager.

Off-payroll rule exclusion for UK contractors' wholly overseas clients 'could be a loophole'

An overshadowed IR35 rule revision is paradoxically both ‘sensible’ and suggestive of non-compliance.

IR35 reform victims launch Self-Employed Alliance (SEA), to combat ‘zero-rights’ employment

Blanket assessed or banned? A new contractor campaign force is calling you to join the fight back today.

What permie staff recruiters hate about your contractor CV

As you start to cosy up to the full-time jobs market, best avoid turning off its agents.

'Astonishing' IR35 defeat for Eamonn Holmes tipped for appeal

Four decades of freelancing, for at least seven different clients, undone by IR35’s trinity.

Where Eamonn Holmes’ IR35 tribunal nearly won, but ultimately lost

Control and Mutuality brushed him inside IR35; other aspects painted the rest of the picture.

Doing the off-payroll rules right: meet the companies correctly assessing contractor IR35 status

Fair and proper status determinations aren’t a fiction, although there’s fewer firms doing them than ought to be.

Contractors’ off-payroll options: six IR35 reform responses if you’re a limited company

Faced with the unpalatable from the 6th, PSCs have got about as many ways to respond.

Contractors’ off-payroll options: six IR35 reform responses if you’re a limited company

Faced with the unpalatable from the 6th, PSCs have got about as many ways to respond.

Contractors’ Questions: Is this termination clause in my new fixed-term contract unlawful?

Delete, modify or duplicate -- the options facing a PSC told it cannot terminate.

Tax simplification unit ‘not consulted’ about complex IR35 reforms

HMT shut out its own independent adviser from having a say on changes to the ‘horrifying’ off-payroll rules.

Government curtails Lords’ IR35 inquiry by ruling out April 6th delay

Peers cross out their questions, concerns and recommendations about timing, due to the government going ahead.

Contractors to make the most of IR35 reform’s 12-month ‘soft-landing’

The Treasury’s ‘light-touch’ off-payroll pledge is getting a heavy amount of scrutiny.