Contracting News

Unhappy anniversary: the woeful way April's off-payroll rules are playing out.

LinkedIn -- is it really useful or just another social media platform?

End-users want freelancers' niches to help navigate today’s perfect storm.

The big three's key pledges to 'Ltd' workers and contracting.

70% of techies want to leave since 'Leave,' and half as many are put off their own IT biz.

Contractors would lose the £3bn brolly sector under Labour's manifesto pledge.

Wilfully ignorant, or just uninformed? Either way, Corbyn’s brolly ban is bizarre.

Snap election extends your chance to input on 'wholly exclusively and necessarily.'

Brexit and government policy sapping one-person businesses to a 'concerning' level.

Tech body overseeing cyber attacked NHS is 'operating without a permanent leader.'

The government-owned bank is wielding its axe over 154 IT contractor jobs.

Where we are now on divorcing from the EU, and how contractors will marry with the process.

Brexit uncertainty isn't stopping clients sourcing the IT contractors they need. 

What the UK's new administration should commit to on June 9th and why.

But talk of 'working families,' and a vow to hike company tax, will unsettle contractors.

Forget next year’s cut to it, it's the dividend allowance itself that the taxman can't compute.

Tiny traders overwhelmingly plan to keep at it, despite economic worries.

Digital accounts dropped from Finance Bill, but a 'retrospective IR35 shock' is included.

Labour vows to hit big firms that leave their small suppliers in the financial lurch.

Labour and Tories start tax talk, as a status review and post-election Budget are mooted.

Contractor sector in 'great danger' of off-payroll problems becoming permanent.

How limiting your income can be more financially rewarding than it sounds.

A common status scenario we've seen since April 6th, and what to do about it.

Uncertainty and unskilled, nervy permies are playing into the hands of IT contractors.

And other tales...so hirers will do more for you than just read your beginning, middle and end.

'More non-permies on premiums, and fewer having rates cut than pre-EU vote.'

Separating fact from fiction about what's now here -- IR35 reform in the public sector.

Taxman tackles a 'contractor' arrangement that disguises income as loyalty points.

Getting to grips with how a brolly operates is the key to avoiding any nasty surprises.

Chancellor's concession is welcomed, but reservations remain over MTD's cost, timing and use.

April showers on PSCs make payroll firms' pensions a tax shelter worth exploring.

Will April's IR35 legislation leave more PSCs in its wake than last April's T&S rules?

Get tailored help on the off-payroll rules, to work out what 23 days’ time means for you.

Budget's biggest windfall is by setting the break-evens at £2,000, £8,667 and £10,092.

Theresa May's intervention is welcomed, yet up to £700 more in Class 4 is still incoming.

Varying levels of outcry reflect varying levels of tax, but your new liability is capped at £1,143.

Planning, info and advice are the best triple-lock to protect against Hammond's squeeze.

£3,000 hike in PSCs' taxable income seen as a lesser evil than extending off-payroll rules.

Philip Hammond delivers his first Budget, to prepare Britain for a 'fairer' future.

IFA: Will the chancellor strike the right (or wrong) notes for your personal finances?