What’s in store for IT contractors this year, according to a veteran freelance business analyst who’s seen off recessions, AI ...

A year in review for contractors on employment status and IR35 reveals that, perhaps ominously, the courts are closing ranks ...

The chancellor may as well have announced ‘While Stocks Last’ on a long-standing retirement saving strategy for inside IR35 ...

Before IT contractors can explore the depreciation period and rate for their staple items – business laptops and computers, let’s start with some fundamentals like what is depreciation and who decides ...

The concept of being Inside IR35 (or Outside IR35) results from the issue that faced the Inland Revenue in 1999 -- ‘disguised employment,’ writes Danny Batey, senior tax consultant at Markel. HMRC ...

When you are contracting, you may come across the expression ‘self-billing arrangement’ or ‘self-billing agreement’. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, I will clarify what these potentially opaque ...

It’s been mentioned twice recently on ContractorUK, firstly by an umbrella company and then by an overseas working adviser and perhaps it does bear repeating, because the application of the IR35 rules ...

Nowadays, car leasing is more popular than ever before. Your monthly costs are often lower, the car’s maintenance tends to be taken care of, and you don’t have to concern yourself with your vehicle’s ...

The directors of an umbrella company who swindled £45million have been jailed for a total of almost three decades, in what is said to be the UK’s largest ever payroll fraud of its kind. Geoffrey, ...

Limited company contractors might now know what it means to be inside IR35, but they mustn’t forget the dilemma that faced the Inland Revenue in 1999; ‘disguised employment.’ Here, exclusively for ...

IR35 substitution is often labelled as a key test for employment status determination, though the IR35 legislation actually tests not whether an individual contractor can send a substitute, but rather ...

The hardest IR35 factor to consider/argue? The biggest IR35 headache for contractors? On both fronts, it's MOO. Mutuality Of Obligations ('MOO' or even sometimes 'MoO') can sometimes be referred to as ...