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.

As trusted insolvency practitioners and business advisors, Frost Group provide straightforward solutions to help both solvent and insolvent businesses, contractors, and individuals resolve financial ...

Curiosity about umbrella companies must be on the up thanks to the April 6 th off-payroll rules, because it is not every day that ContractorUK Forum users ask me to write about pension provision via a ...

A group set up to support contractors affected by the 2019 Loan Charge has written to HMRC’s CEO Jon Thompson, following a letter they sent him which he did not reply to. We are astonished that, ...

Contractors may be the sole beneficiaries of Labour’s umbrella company regulation plan (which won’t be consulted on).