The chancellor has further muddied the limited company waters, rather than obliging contractors with the wiping clean of the speculation slate that all other taxpayers receive.

A tempering of ambition with pragmatism. A shaping of policy with evidence. Both are hopefully signs of the Employment Rights Bill consultations to come.

The take-home dent of the chancellor’s hike to basic and higher rate dividends goes far (far) beyond 2026/27, because a precedent has now been set.

Nine chapters alongside Budget 2025 are likely the last word to contractors’ agencies before they turn jointly and severally liable for umbrellas’ unpaid taxes.

The deposit protection limit of the FSCS increasing today is trust-inducing. Contractors (both prudent and shrewd) will still likely want to act.

The chancellor hits UK contracting with a ‘growth-choking’ budget, containing two IR35 ‘devils in the detail’ and Labour’s ‘hidden’ penalisation of remote work.

The chancellor giveth warm words to ‘working people’ but taketh more of contractors’ incomes via stealth tax, dividends, and NI on £2k-plus pensions contributions.

Five key areas of contractor pensions and personal finance to watch out for in the chancellor’s statement today.

An ignoble nine directors are a warning not to ignore, especially for contractors with BBL concerns who are about to close.

A behind-closed-doors session for the Conservatives to work out their IR35 position posed four big questions to contractors’ advisers.

Demand for IT contractors takes another step towards growth, as ContractorUK is told of a ‘clear and sustained’  uptick.

As the government continues to flatter IR35, the data needed to truly gauge the full, detrimental impact of the HMRC rules is conveniently not being disclosed.

Today’s perfect storm of pressures on temporary technology workers is greater than ever. All the more reason to dig deep, self-believe and adapt.

The “interesting” case of the nurse who won at the ET, but who’s now lost at the EAT, contains some key admissions for Labour, as well.

A full list of winners from the seventh annual Contracting Awards.

The Intermediaries legislation of 2000 has made life ‘very, very difficult’ for contractors, so it too would be abolished with the OPW rules — Reform UK.

The taxman has 14 million reasons to feel like he’s come out on top, even if it is wooden dollars which changed hands four times.

Following an attack by Nigel Farage on ‘weak Tory chancellors’ for leaving contractors ‘embattled by IR35,’ Richard Tice says it does indeed mean a Reform government would axe the HMRC rule.

Officials' insistence that digital ID cards will be internally resourced is not convincing analysts, agents, and trade bodies, who argue that IT contractors will inevitably be involved.

A few good reasons why the ‘token gesture’ should avoid the axe probably need offsetting against alignment and adjustment risks to dividends on Nov 26th.