Contracting News

How a HMRC consultation could end up hurting the availability and cost of guidance you rely on.

The shrugging off by clients continues, despite one or two hiring pauses -- REC.

'Focus on employers, forget more of the same and resist tarring with the same brush.'  

Contractors with offshore tax issues will be hard-pressed to find the WDF's soft spots.

Chancellor hints at help for high-tech, including on hiring IT workers from abroad.

PM gets a CEO to review the blurring between bosses, workers and contractors.

Scheme selling your PSC to Cyprus, so income can turn into relievable gains, is targeted.

Contractors, here's why HMRC's new warning to you isn't acceptable.

Contractors, write to your MP about the damage IR35 reform will inflict from April.

IPSE, REC and the IoD all want a fiscal stimulus on November 23rd.

Chancellor told by Treasury committee chair that being right is more important than being rigid.

How your other half can share your PSC's dividends while cutting your tax bill.

IR35, and other policies you can feedback on, set for Hammond's inaugural AS.

Shock of Brexit vote said to have subsided in August.

Placements almost held up after 'Leave,' but new openings are down by double-digits.

Workers face tax on the full amount of pay sacrificed, bar for a few BiKs, from April.

And even those who know about it say HMRC isn't providing enough information.

'Flipping' tax debts from a PSC to its persons is a growing business for HMRC.

'A very real issue' appears to be keeping small firms from going to court.

Today's the day to tell the taxman how he'll hurt public sector contracting.

As Brexit clouds are only on the horizon (not overhead), IT contracting conditions are still good.

HMRC refuses to exempt incorporated businesses from online accounts in 2018. 

August 1st saw another two financial giants axe IT rates, each blaming 'uncertainty.' 

UK tech companies have two capitals fighting for their favour.

Another dataset casts Developers as the techie winners of the Brexit vote.

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Superimposing the IR35 plan for the public sector on the private sector won’t be easy.

Three advisers are far from alone in feeling the fallout from offshore schemes failing. 

Brexit-induced uncertainty predicted to dog companies for half a year, 'at least.'

Six month extensions tie the bank’s desktop techies to less money until Christmas.

Control may be the driving force in the ride-hailing app's first UK courtroom.

The dividends tax chancellor goes the way of his 'punishment' Budget.

Higher costs and legal barriers loom large if your client goes under post-Brexit.

Official update follows the arrival of a new batch of demands for loan repayment.

'Buoyant' times ahead for Business Intelligence contractors, as new systems await.

Uncertainty cools the prospects of even the techies who tend to benefit from jitters.

Dividend mix-ups are worth singing from the rooftops as deserving the Cold Shoulder.

Chancellor says five per cent tax cut would show post-Brexit Britain as ‘open for business.’

Treasury minister on the back foot over 'level playing field' claim.

At home and away, contractors have some cause for optimism, despite the unanswered questions.