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What goes into working out a gross annual salary using daily rate (and vice versa).

Small but significant tweaks to the UK’s ISA landscape could make contractors happier investors, despite groans and some grumpiness.

The big considerations to make before, upon, and after setting your fees as a temporary technologist for another 12 months.

The admin side to the most complicated of business expenses, and how it could save you if an inspector calls.

Why PRR is one of the best tax reliefs going, and how to take advantage of it as a PSC.

Unfettered substitution as a sign-post to ‘no employment relationship’ is a top takeaway from the food courier firm’s legal win.

With reward comes risk, as while it can be fulfilling and fruitful, being a contractor at the same time as an employee isn’t for the faint-hearted.

Lacking boldness, relevance and even substance, yesterday’s chancellor is one that contractors who have property will want to forget.

Maybe chancellor Jeremy Hunt wouldn’t today be under as much pressure to regulate them if all brollies did these five, as standard.

The nitty gritty of reporting to officialdom when your limited company is not doing business.

What contractors can look for to work out if a brolly is worth it or worrying.

How to pay back what you owe, to both HMRC and the Student Loans Company.

Your name in lights is absolutely possible as a PSC, but whether that stardom comes with a tax deduction is probably one for your accountant, else HMRC.

Explained: the hoops to jump through to get your company’s tax back from HMRC.

Successfully working as an independent techie means understanding the key differences between consultant and contractor.