A payroll tax liability-responsibility shift from umbrellas to agencies dangerously throws the baby out with the bathwater. It must be stopped.

Avoiding running off agency PAYE reference numbers is how the government can avoid destabilising the UK’s entire temporary labour market.

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

LITRG: As part of helping the unrepresented be informed, we’re calling in technology to automate your next deductions double-check.

Contract workers must adjust to BRPs and ‘clipped’ no longer being acceptable RTW proof (even if you may feel like a second-class job-seeker).

An off-payroll rules update by HMRC is far from the full story. But the subtext is clear – the reformed IR35 rules aren’t going anywhere.

Ex-Liverpool footballer and manager Phil Thompson appealed to the Upper Tier Tribunal against the decision handed down in December 2023 by the First Tier Tax Tribunal, which held that Thompson’s ...

The mortgage and property markets are not expecting any Spring Statement 2025 announcements that would give homeowners and homebuyers cause to celebrate. Despite my own hopes, it does seem unlikely ...

Late last month, HMRC showed how it wants to radically change the way IR35 works for contractors in the public sector in a set of proposals that are nothing short of worrying, writes Andrew ...

Although the words ‘scarcity’ and ‘shortage’ can have negative connotations in many walks of life, for a canny IT contractor these are the adjectives for market conditions sent from heaven, writes ...