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Meal allowances are a valid expense for contractors – when it is a travel expense. To be allowable a meal allowance has to be an expense of travel.

If you are a contractor working through your own limited company and are outside IR35 then life is very simple.

The general view of HMRC is that working for an agency does not qualify for travel expenses.

Three months into the revised IR35 regime for the public sector and there seem to be more contractors caught by the Intermediaries legislation than ever before.

Expenses aid for a would-be contractor feeling stung by the travel costs of a new opportunity.

Bypassing the hirer’s preferred process probably won’t end well, even if it is error-prone.

One of the lesser factors of IR35 status is too much of a grey area for CEST to cope.

Expenses do's and don'ts for a 'Ltd' contractor with limited space.

Hand it over to a man with no past in a public place? ‘If something doesn’t feel right…’

The options open to an IT consultant wanting to protect, and serve notice. 

Light or reliant? The level of internet usage is a key to knowing if you can claim.

Are you a controller, processor or sub-processor? If so, it’s T-minus 40 days.

Top tips for a contractor hoping to get back what his company forked out.

It’s humble and old, but a CV is still your first weapon when hunting down a higher rate.

Whether you can work abroad via your PSC is a bit of a traffic light. But in 12 countries, you can push the button with confidence.