Any errors with your NI or UTR numbers can cause a rejection of your self-assessment return or delay processing your tax return. Incorrect personal details could even cause you to start receiving ...

A holding of horses might be required for IT contractors seeking a fresh start, especially amid today’s less-than-stellar market.

“What are the NI implications on a single-director contractor limited company that wants to take on a single employee?” It’s a question we’ve been asked before but a question that we’ve been asked in ...

Contractors’ recruitment consultants are receiving demands from HMRC, in the first sign that the taxman is enforcing the Criminal Finances Act 2017 against staffing agencies. The Freelancer and ...

The private sector IR35 reform proposal threatens to expose clients to the new corporate criminal evasion offence if they fail to ensure PSCs pay the "right amount" of tax, a law firm is warning.

Payment terms for contractors in the public sector have been hiked from just five days to 33 days -- and potentially, in practice, even up to a cashflow-constraining 40 days. Having already absorbed ...

Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, I want to suggest how to answer “Why Should We Hire You?” in a way that won’t compromise your integrity as an independent contractor. And it’s a way of answering ...

Gary Lineker and HMRC have settled out of court following a seven-year dispute over the football pundit’s IR35 and employment status. Terms between the Match of the Day presenter and the tax authority ...

The divisive issue of establishing whether a contract is “inside IR35” or “outside IR35” is hashed out in decades of employment status case law. But while historic, this case law is also continually ...

I told ContractorUK back in March that more guidance from HMRC on the Managed Service Company legislation was incoming, but it’s only just emerged now, in the form of Spotlight 67, writes former tax ...

It must be nearly Christmas, as a court has found in favour of an unfair dismissal claim from a would-be contractor who was effectively stopped from contracting. That’s the key takeaway of Mr M Moore ...

This final quarter of 2024 saw the first Labour budget in 14 years, and the first-ever budget delivered by a female chancellor, writes IFA Angela James of financial planning advisory Yolo Wealth.