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Freelancer Financials homes in on Jeremy Hunt’s key announcements affecting UK housing, including implications for your own bricks and mortar.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers a ‘let down’ to PSCs, but umbrella contractors pocket £900 a year plus a (recycled) promise of regulation.

Despite loud heckles, Jeremy Hunt manages to deliver a Spring Budget for ‘lower taxes…and long-term growth.’

The UK housing market desperately needs a fillip, but chancellor Jeremy Hunt won’t roll out the very big guns until just before contractors go to the polls.

An analysis of the Upper Tribunal upholding the FTT’s ruling that ESL failed to operate an overarching contract.

200,000 out of 360,000 contractors no longer being limited, indicates MPs are right to worry HMRC’s approach to the OPW rules ‘deters economic activity.’

Like employees, drivers are on course to be a winner on Wednesday, potentially unlike some PSCs who risk being lumped in with vapers.

Despite being legally required to, the taxman taking offline those he ‘named and shamed’ just a short time ago doesn’t give contractors the protection they want - and need.

Top seven year-end tax planning tips contractors can follow right now, to minimise their next HMRC bill.

Contractor accountants fear they’ll have no choice other than to join the government agency in putting up prices for Personal Service Companies. 

Lawful or Laughable? Security reforms on the UK register of companies shouldn’t push up prices – just as they shouldn’t be a joke.

Candidate availability at what feels like a three-year high isn’t causing cuts to pay or personnel, even if the ‘r-word’ can historically hurt at renewal.

In a world where limited company tax efficiencies are increasingly few and far between, directors cannot afford to miss this potent £60,000 threshold.

Thinking ‘I’ve Got This’ is too often a sign you’re a bad interviewee -- way before the interview has even started.

Trucks popular with the self-employed will stay as they are, with even new legislation to keep DCPUs in the tax-friendly lane.

The taxman isn’t getting much credit for taking the number of cases which CEST has been tested against from 24 to 36.

Knock it all you want but Check Employment Status for Tax does exactly what it says on the tin.

Resolved: whether limited company contractors should call themselves ‘CEO,’ ‘MD’ on their CV, or just stick to a ‘functional’ tech title.

Forget the 2021 inquiry by MPs 'How Contracting Should Work,' here's 'Why Contracting Isn't Working' in 2024.

The prolonged pursuit of the Daybreak and Radio 5 Live host is understandably taking its toll on the presenter’s mental health.

Chartered accountant Anthony Mellor writes to Jeremy Hunt to appeal for fairness, justice, and compassion for taxpayers affected by the loan charge.

In an insult to ten lives lost, the Treasury’s financial secretary is reading from discredited scripts, when he’s not looking for a soundbite or brushing off MPs’ concerns with claims of scaremongering.

IR35 is meant to deter disguised employment, not genuine freelancing, but something has gone badly wrong -- as Adams, Street-Porter and Moore are now finding out.

Yolo Wealth gives a guarded welcome to the chancellor potentially offering a new way to buy an initial chunk of UK company shares tax-free.

Despite an outcry over his effective capital gains rate of just 23%, our PM has set a good example of efficient tax planning.

Our latest confidence index shows contractor daily fees doing well, despite short-term faith in their own ventures dwindling -- IPSE.

The clock is loudly ticking for contractors to review their allowances -- before HMRC calls time for another year.

Tech sector’s ‘weak’ start to 2024 coincides with IT contractor hiring missing the usual New Year bounce back.

What the IT contractor jobs market currently looks like, and why. 

The Loose Women host talks ‘David and Goliath’ to explain the awful, horrific, £200,000 experience of three tribunals and still no HMRC admission that it lost and she has won.

A technical consultation on the April 6th off-payroll set-off is underway, so contractors can have a say. But be quick.

Top 5 reasons why off-payroll liability clauses on contractors are very likely worth the paper they’re printed on.

Landing a software development contract never looked so different, so remove your interview/contract blinkers and gear up.

Where will you spend, save and succeed in tax year 2024-25; and crucially, how?

What limited company contractors need to do to reduce a HMRC liability of £14,476 to not even £9k.

Readers of ContractorUK validate a new IPSE-Workwell study finding clients are getting far too good a deal.

Markel responds to claims ‘it’s not right to indicate indemnity clauses against OPW taxes aren’t enforceable.’

In spite of the dreaded M-word, PSCs probably won’t shed too many tears waving goodbye to P11Ds from April 2026.

A former minister says the innocent BBC presenter’s ordeal over her IR35 status warrants an inquiry.

How to ensure your client doesn’t become the next HelloFresh, Bank of Ireland or Optionis (Caroola).

Showing passion and purpose for his 60,000 victims, MPs should go down in history for squaring up to an unaccountable, unfair, and uncontrollable taxman.

A feverish sense of fatigue, and it’s not even February? These boosters are at least one New Year’s resolution you can actually stick to.

IT jobs agencies confirm to ContractorUK it’s not just outside that the big freeze is on, unless you’re skilled in emerging tech.

The March 6th odds don’t look good for action on key contractor sector areas like IR35 and umbrella company regulation.

‘Unsuspecting contractors’ alerted to a new company to withdraw from, even if ‘the horse has already bolted.’

Just say ‘No’ and other strategies for not getting caught by the off-payroll rules in the next 12 months.

When market forces are too erratic to fathom, the best mortgage for contractors is entirely based on your now, and what you want from your tomorrow.

Not since July 2020 have prospects for IT contractors looked so ice cold.

The tax-free allowance’s direction of travel indicates contractors could end up at Spring Budget 2024 with just £250.

The UK’s data watchdog says the parent company of Nixon Williams, Parasol and formerly SJD Accountancy breached the GDPR.

The strengths -- worries -- threats and opportunities, incoming for contractors in this uncertain, but now undisputed election year.

Despite the Small Business Commissioner and other recovery means, seven in 10 contractors are just as unpaid as two years ago.

There’s no happy new year for ‘Dodgy Agency Ltd’ which had to pay one IT contractor in full, and now faces an investigation into its sharp practices.

'Clever Jeremy' told to act on limited company tax, even if the IR35 ‘clownshow’ suggests the current administration isn’t into supporting PSCs.

If what HMRC threw at limited company contractors and end-users in late 2023 is anything to go by, here’s what’s in store in 2024.

The taxman has scored a £300,000 IR35 goal against the former Liverpool defender.

How the Loose Women presenter saw off HMRC, despite the appearance of more ‘employed’ factors than ‘self-employed’ factors.

The hard, soft, and still emerging skills required to succeed with Artificial Intelligence on a contract basis.

Where in Europe will next year be the most promising, receptive, and financially rewarding for freelance software engineers.

New Year sign-offs for top IT contractors could have inspired the first uplift in temporary tech skills since September.

It’s probably only us truly independent contractors who can untie the Gordian knot of off-payroll.

To recruiters who use brollies the taxman has published inadequate guidance -- a list of must-dos bereft of any new directional detail.

A dispassionate look into the arrangement at the centre of a heated, public disagreement on LinkedIn.

The taxman just missed an opportunity by not denouncing clients who get off the hook by imposing off-payroll indemnities on agencies.

Buckingham Wealth; Hive Umbrella, PAYE Services, Bluestar Associates, Excala Solutions, Griffith Anderson and Rainbowpay get ‘named and shamed.’

Everything ranging from the taxman conceding to retrospective legislation is being foreseen in wake of the BBC presenter’s court victory.

The taxman is now seeking to recover covid cash from PSC directors, personally, even where they took advice, professionally.

Here's your invitation to be part of a ground-breaking industry milestone (and get a little justice while you’re at it).

The Loose Women presenter triumphs in a ‘finely-balanced’ case, after being forced for the fourth time to defend her outside IR35 status in court.

International Men’s Day 2023 rightly recognises that too many men are no longer with us, too often because they couldn’t share with us. What can you do to change that?

A surprisingly unknown but freshly updated bit of HMRC guidance could save contractors’ agencies from hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax liabilities.

‘The only good news’ of Autumn Statement 2023 is unravelling, due to not all contractor tax advisers being convinced.

A mutual offering to contractor PSCs sounds a bit 'meh.' But in key areas, that’s exactly what this chancellor managed.

Chancellor offers 111, not 110 pro-business measures, while boosting umbrella contractor take-home pay by up to £750 a year.

Jeremy Hunt delivers ‘an Autumn Statement for a country that has turned a corner…an Autumn Statement for UK growth.’

Today’s a big acid test for our well-heeled chancellor. But for the good of your home loan, property, or investment, will he pass it?

Don’t hold your breath, as it’s only the starting pistol to turning around the business turnaround sector which has just been fired.

A new era of fraudulent interviews (now in progress) needs to be stamped out by the professional community.

Slow and steady is inflation’s new trajectory, helped massively by a sharp drop in October -- which should now ease contractors’ interest rate fears.

A course correction by a chancellor promising ‘an AS for growth’ bodes well for enterprise, tax cuts, and even contractor take-home pay.

What the taxman lets you reimburse for business travel via a personal vehicle has somehow not been updated for 12 years.

The Revenue has removed the right of most taxpayers to VAT-register by post, not that it asked via any consultation.

Optimism for a grim October is provided by agencies saying the slowdown’s end is now in sight.

The typical way to work in this post-IR35 reform world is riddled with a lack of choice for both employee and employer.

Hourly rates being attached to ‘opportunities that won’t last long’ is proof scammers specifically want contractors in their crosshairs.

The biggest study yet into IR35 reform and umbrella companies says regulation is desperately needed, but there’s little hope it’ll emerge at Autumn Statement.

Job boards and instant messengers ‘swamped’ by non-existent opportunities from scammers posing as reputable tech recruiters.

The chancellor’s post is already being reworded by off-payroll critics. My fear is that it’s not the only thing this month from HMT’s boss which will warrant a rewrite.

Disappointed, potentially feeling undervalued, and definitely departing, the DLME unveils 12 recommendations despite her ‘uphill struggle’ with government.

The boss of a contractor accounting firm makes a well-calculated call for Autumn Statement to write off IR35 reform.

For the accused under the MSC legislation, simply ignoring the taxman’s seemingly out of the blue offer isn’t really an option.

An underway enforcement initiative by the taxman makes brolly regulation on November 22nd even less likely.

What you heard down the pub versus the reality can often disappoint. But the sobering reality of company closures is absolutely worth knowing.

A bit of crystal ball gazing to help ensure your priorities as a freelance software developer get sorted for next year.

Seven agencies that met the taxman to say his Statement of Works guidance isn’t up to scratch have achieved a ‘positive’ result.

Neither a three-month gap, nor a correctly made payment, can derail historic holiday pay underpayment claims.

An announcement from Bauer & Cottrell on the passing of its managing director and founder.

When even a tiny edge over rivals matters, ditch the drink to see how you perform as energised, enhanced and emotionally-balanced.

A freshly blacklisted arrangement is already under a stop notice, as is another scheme run by the very same director.

Making yourself visible to ‘hidden’ contractor opportunities is the way to go when the open market falters.