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

A year in review for contractors on employment status and IR35 reveals that, perhaps ominously, the courts are closing ranks ...

The chancellor may as well have announced ‘While Stocks Last’ on a long-standing retirement saving strategy for inside IR35 ...

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 ...

As technology evolves, the risk of cyber-attacks continues to increase. Little wonder, then, we’re now seeing demand for cyber-security expertise reach an all-time-high as organisations strive to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nowadays, car leasing is more popular than ever before. Your monthly costs are often lower, the car’s maintenance tends to be taken care of, and you don’t have to concern yourself with your vehicle’s ...

When you are contracting, you may come across the expression ‘self-billing arrangement’ or ‘self-billing agreement’. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, I will clarify what these potentially opaque ...

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, ...

‘Umbrella or PAYE: what is the difference?’ It’s a fair question, a good question even, but first we ought to ask a more fundamental one, writes Lucy Smith, managing director of Clarity Umbrella. And ...