Latest Contractor Guides

Tried and tested ways to make end-clients eat out of your freelance hand.

How to succeed as a first-time contractor with technology skills.

Contractors must know their cover, from their cover ‘that goes several steps further’ -- especially when up against an aggressive HMRC.

Revealed: the non-technical competencies that can transform top techies into absolute IT heroes.

Seven areas contractors must be across to nullify HMRC scrutiny of their IR35 status.

The actions, activities, and additional goings-on during an IR35 enquiry by HMRC.

How Pay As You Earn through an umbrella company differs from through a recruitment agency.

Reviewing your payslip and pay report is a must when you work through an umbrella company.

A silver bullet to stop HMRC is the stuff of legends. All the more reason to protect yourself with these five.

An explainer to the acronym contractors will invariably see at end-clients who are expanding overseas.

HMRC just binned the paper form contractors have long-used to record BIKs.

Mortgages for contractors that use your best asset: your contract rate!

A change in status. A high dividend low salary-split. Both are red rags to a potentially bullish HMRC.

Specialist contractor broker vs bank branch adviser? If you want the best home loan for your circumstances, and limited company, there’s no contest.

A rundown of the key timelines if probed by HMRC under IR35, so you can avoid being the next Cowan or Lynagh.