Just as umbrella company regulation is doing, the taxman’s talk about his avoidance list appers to be taking the gloss off it.

I don’t profess to be legally qualified to understand the technical fine print of everything announced at Autumn Budget 2024 regarding the HMRC policy paper “Tackling non-compliance in the umbrella ...

As a professional contractor operating outside IR35 through a limited company or Personal Services Company (PSC), securing a mortgage can be challenging through conventional routes.

If you’re a CIS contractor (or subcontractor), you’ll have noticed how difficult it is to get a mortgage from a mainstream lender.

When the IT contractor who shows up for work isn’t the UK citizen/PSC director who landed the role.

Over the last three years, our tech contractor recruitment agency has witnessed a concerning rise in fraudulent attempts to bypass the UK’s immigration regulations – attempts made by foreign ...

If the chancellor had a grand for every time contractors asked us in the past few months about whether Entrepreneurs’ Relief would make it unscathed out of his next Budget tomorrow, then he’d ...

As two brollies got told this month, an umbrella company must still pay its contractors even when it is out of pocket.

Legislation will have the final word, but we can already say the speculation, misinterpretation, and mischaracterisation appear to have no bounds.