HMRC has now made it explicitly clear that the buying and selling of cryptoassets are not comparable to gambling. Therefore any gains or income are taxable, and likely to be subject to Capital Gains ...

A look by someone who’s sold up already at whether April 6th 2026 regulation is going to trigger umbrella mergers, acquisitions by recruitment agencies, or neither.

James Murray MP is being lobbied to take six actions to avoid an “existential” crisis for the UK’s umbrella contractor industry. The Treasury minister is warned in a letter -- seen by ContractorUK -- ...

It’s that time of year again. The New Year means a new start, or at least it feels as if a new professional start could be made in the first of these 12 new months. And that goes for IT contractors ...

With warnings about tax return tardiness now even being issued by the likes of Money Saving Expert, it’s probably best that contractors get some advice from the likes of us -- a full service ...

He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...

Experts on contractors’ cash find a poll that was on the money in 2024 overestimating the depth and frequency of base rate reductions in 2025.

Previewed and revealed: the ‘hot’ IT contractor skills of next year, their current rates, forecasted rates, and why they’ll be critical.