FCSA has expelled MyPay after HMRC’s winding-up petition, but the umbrella still claims accreditation. An ex-HMRC inspector says steer clear, the REC urges caution, and APSCo tells agencies to ...

HMRC reckoned no other impacts of JSL had been identified. Compliant small umbrellas squeezed off agency PSLs tell a different story, as does the growing number of live petitions by the taxman, and ...

Robert Walters’ Jason King sets chancellor John Healey three Budget 2026 tasks to boost IT contractor hiring: fund AI skills, ...

Winners and judges react after the 2026 Contracting Awards in London, where several of last year’s victors successfully defended their titles, the first AI award was handed out, and one broker made it ...

Don’t expect an IR35 rewrite on October 28th, say SG Accounting and Bright Ideas. Instead, brace for a tech-led HMRC (Caroola ...

With Churchill Knight’s tribunal due in November and one contractor facing an alleged £52,700 bill, a former HMRC specialist ...

UK demand for contract IT skills climbed in August 2026, growing for the second month in a row despite the seasonally quiet time, and to its greatest buoyancy since April 2023, says the REC. The ...

Facing a £14.8million IR35 bill, the FCDO has put 438 of its 500 contractors (88%) inside IR35, up from about half a year ago. Those five steps, which I’ll expand on later, matter for public sector ...

“I knew it was a loan.” It is an important admission in the increasingly complicated dispute over historic contractor loan recalls. Not every contractor now facing demands relating to old remuneration ...

When I set up my limited company, I put my home address on the form and didn't think about it again. Nobody mentioned it might matter. I just wanted the paperwork done so I could start working. What I ...

Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has pledged that a future Tory government would outright replace IR35, prompting two advisers who met him about the rule to tell ContractorUK what could replace it.