The Commercial Payments Bill avoided the usual fate of promising legislation — getting butchered by the Lords and sent back ...

HMRC is consulting on plans that would require contractor limited companies and other VAT-registered and PAYE-registered businesses to pay those liabilities by Direct Debit, rather than choosing their ...

HMRC’s recent focus on ‘reckless’ tax offences is a blunt instrument that risks tarring legitimate contractors with the same brush as tax evaders, warns SG Accounting’s Daniel Mepham.

After June's heatwave-linked dip, IT contractor demand is back in growth — its best month in nearly three years. First Point ...

UK IT contracting isn't shrinking, but it is getting pickier. SThree's Nicholas Tsappis explains why cybersecurity, AI and ...

Is a conventional umbrella company still the only way to get paid inside IR35? Far from it — as healthcare, education, ...

As LinkedIn users herald a ‘quiet comeback’ in outside IR35 contracting, Reed's head of contract IT hiring Kelly Macey sets ...

As LinkedIn users herald a ‘quiet comeback’ in outside IR35 contracting, Reed's head of contract IT hiring Kelly Macey sets the record straight, and explains what's actually behind 2026's rise in ...

Auto enrolment quietly sorts pensions for employees. Contractors get nothing of the sort, and fewer than one in five of the self-employed now saves into one at all. ContractorUK asked 278 contractors ...

What to do first when your HMRC loan charge settlement letter arrives? The first thing to do when you receive an HMRC loan charge settlement offer is to read it very carefully, paying particular ...