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.

But unfortunately, the hiring sector appears to be either slow to respond or oblivious to these attempted frauds. Perhaps in some cases, staffing companies are simply eager to place contractors, and ...

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.

Buried in the raft of revenue-raising measures announced at Autumn Budget 2024 was one seemingly rather small change -- the rate of interest on tax paid late to HMRC is going up by 1.5 percentage ...

There is a lot to consider when making the leap into contracting. How do you find contract jobs? How much can you earn? How do you write your CV? What’s IR35? Do you use an umbrella company or start ...

At face value, there were few housing and mortgage surprises in Rachel Reeves’ first budget, even if it was the first-ever UK budget delivered by a woman chancellor. What’s perhaps more pressing for ...

ContractorUK has provided you with an IR35 tax calculator in order for you to calculate how IR35 can affect your income. IR35 affects contractors who do not meet the Inland Revenue's definition of ...

Welcome to CUK's guide to S660 and 'income shifting'. Section 660a or S660a has been around for many years but the Government (being short of a bob or two billion) has decided to re-examine this rule ...

On LinkedIn, I’m regularly approached by other contractors who can’t get their head around how to operate – in the view of HMRC – on an Outside IR35 basis. The number one complaint from these ...