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

“What are the NI implications on a single-director contractor limited company that wants to take on a single employee?” It’s a question we’ve been asked before but a question that we’ve been asked in ...

The interesting (court) case of the would-be contractor unreasonably denied freelance work serves as a cautionary client tale for 2025.

Clients; cash, co-builders, and contractors (or the likes of) are the biggest barriers -- ranked in order, to getting an IT start-up off the ground in 2018, a survey shows. Commissioned by a digital ...

Contractors’ recruitment consultants are receiving demands from HMRC, in the first sign that the taxman is enforcing the Criminal Finances Act 2017 against staffing agencies. The Freelancer and ...

Contractors have just today to feedback on “wider” contractual requirements under the GDRP, to be put in place between those who store people’s data and those they hire to process it. Addressing the ...

PSC contractors completing their tax return may be hit by new rules if they received a distribution on winding up on or after April 6th 2016-- and remain involved in similar trade. Issuing this alert, ...

The private sector IR35 reform proposal threatens to expose clients to the new corporate criminal evasion offence if they fail to ensure PSCs pay the "right amount" of tax, a law firm is warning.

The taxman is using a poor response rate to his proposal to ban tax relief for 'Supervised, Directed or Controlled' workers as the basis to surmise that it won't catch contractors. Speaking last week, ...

Payment terms for contractors in the public sector have been hiked from just five days to 33 days -- and potentially, in practice, even up to a cashflow-constraining 40 days. Having already absorbed ...

The divisive issue of establishing whether a contract is “inside IR35” or “outside IR35” is hashed out in decades of employment status case law. But while historic, this case law is also continually ...