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 contract tech staffing game needs to change in 2026, or else flaws in the UK’s broken recruitment system will deepen, ...

At least one eagle-eyed ContractorUK reader noticed that our contractor dividends guide for 2025-26 didn’t include ‘dividends frequency,’ AKA the frequency of drawing dividends. That’s partly because ...

If a contractor disagrees with an IR35 determination that classifies them as "inside IR35," what do they do? This happened recently to a contractor who was classified by the NHS as inside IR35 and has ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Last week, the contractor sector learned that a well-known umbrella company is facing allegations of inappropriate practice in the form of ‘skimming,’ writes Crawford Temple, CEO of Professional ...

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, ...

Following his previous explainers on IR35, Danny Batey, senior tax consultant at Markel Tax, now plots the chequered history of IR35 from the legislation’s conception in 1999 to the present day furore ...