Contracting News

'Sky high' premiums on offer, notably for Cyber Security Crisis Managers.

Labour and Tory MPs team up to take on a 'short-sighted' plan to restrict T&S relief.

Digital marketers are the only contractors who IT agents are struggling to find.

All but two IT contractor skills are pointing in a positive pay direction.

The end of ongoing relief is an extra strain on umbrella contractors' expenses from April.

Seventeen definitive steps to be taken, including forgetting the Freelancer Limited Company.

What IT contractors can’t afford to miss in the chancellor’s AS-Spending Review combo.

Cap on contracting could be unveiled as early as next month, PSCs told.

Osborne unveils a combined Spending Review and Autumn Statement to 'rebuild Britain.'

No proposal in the AS to cap PSC contracting, but it could still be around the corner.

Today's price cap on IT agency contractors looks perilous for healthcare and its tech talent pool.

Two sources (independent of each other) flesh out a plan to put some PSCs on the payroll.

A 'one-month-then-payroll' clause won’t work where many think IR35 has failed.

Letter template lets contractors object to the 'rumoured' plan to payroll PSCs after a month.

Overload of information protection developments should put IT contractors on alert in four areas.

Fallout from 'one-month cap' would be economical as well as political, chancellor told.

Ex-government secondee declines to add to conjecture by the Mail and Guardian.

Three straight months of slower growth for IT contractors comes to an end.

Scathing report reveals how the Revenue is failing millions of taxpayers on multiple fronts.

'Control' should be the ONLY choice viable to HMRC.

Most contract professionals think Britain is stronger in (not out of) Europe - survey.

Contract techies at GBM begin doing the same work for less money; less of the time.

Making business simpler and less taxing should top the chancellor's agenda on Nov 25.

Revenue retires its paperwork probes, but firms booked in will still have an inspector call.

Umbrella boss maps out the contracting landscape in a post-SDC world.

A single measure imposed on HMRC casts you as the low-hanging fruit, multiple times.

Business owners should set out their tax affairs online – CBI.

Recruiters who rule-break with malice will be the focus of BIS’s enforcement teams.

One-man bands will welcome lower prices, says IPSE.

Attempts by HMRC to spell out supervision, direction or control are 'perfunctory'.

Fewer and fewer freelancers foresee more public IT contracts.

Whispers of another rate cut put the dampeners on an already subdued September. 

The upturn is helping stack the odds of small traders paying VAT on time against them.

If 'SDC' bites, the end is nigh for tens of thousands of limited companies.

Even those contractors who can (and want to) pay their APN are beset with cashflow concerns. 

Contractors join celebs in the Revenue's six-figure net where you pay up front.

Findings from ISPE suggest that an anti-late payment 'tsar' is not before time.

Two weeks' forced leave + 10% reduction = contractors almost 20% worse off.

Paying less to HMRC is the bottom line of two reasons to reform dividends.

Business officials want one-man bands to speak up about their issues.