Following the government’s 2023 consultation into tackling non-compliance in the umbrella market, mandatory ‘due diligence’ checks for agencies working with umbrellas are being considered as part of ...

HMRC updating its list of tax avoidance schemes more often than using it to 'name and shame' new arrangements in October 2025 is reassuring contractor experts. One such expert, Graham Webber, who ...

Complete 2025 guide for contractors working abroad. From visas to tax compliance and country-specific requirements.

Headlines and LinkedIn posts asserting "HMRC lands £1million penalty against a contractor umbrella company" are right to turn heads. But when is a penalty not truly a penalty? Well, in the eyes of ...

For contractors to assess themselves under the IR35 legislation, it is necessary to subdivide the key IR35 status factor of 'Control' into the 'when', the 'what', the 'where' and the 'how,' of ...

The "sunnier outlook" among UK hirers in July 2025 may be starting to shine on IT contractors too, despite rays of growth in August 2025 remaining elusive. According to agency staffing body the REC, ...

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 ...

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 withdrawal of an Employment Rights Bill amendment isn't the last contractors will hear of umbrella company licensing authority and umbrella company regulation. Not if we have anything to do with ...

The chancellor is reportedly looking at raising the VAT registration threshold at Autumn Budget 2025 to £100,000 to boost small business growth and reduce VAT compliance burden. The move by Rachel ...

I wish to cut through it rather than add to it, but there is rather a lot of noise around the new ‘Chapter 11’ Joint & Several Liability (JSL) rules for umbrella companies, and how they’ll sit ...

A seemingly out-of-the-blue government pledge to “support the self-employed” is something we think all UK contractors can get behind, even if it’s been sounded mainly about Britain’s creative ...