The chancellor may as well have announced ‘While Stocks Last’ on a long-standing retirement saving strategy for inside IR35 ...

A year in review for contractors on employment status and IR35 reveals that, perhaps ominously, the courts are closing ranks ...

The contract tech staffing game needs to change in 2026, or else flaws in the UK’s broken recruitment system will deepen, ...

The Statutory Residence Test (SRT) allows contractors and other individuals to determine residence status for a tax year, writes Kevin Austin, managing director of Access Financial. Each tax year is ...

Before IT contractors can explore the depreciation period and rate for their staple items – business laptops and computers, let’s start with some fundamentals like what is depreciation and who decides ...

Following his previous explainers on IR35, Danny Batey, senior tax consultant at Markel Tax, now plots the chequered history of IR35 from the legislation’s conception in 1999 to the present day furore ...

The directors of an umbrella company who swindled £45million have been jailed for a total of almost three decades, in what is said to be the UK’s largest ever payroll fraud of its kind. Geoffrey, ...

VAT can seem daunting, but as 2025-26 dawns, have you considered making life easier by using the Flat Rate Scheme? In fact, while VAT can be complex, what if there was a way to make Value Added Tax ...

An asset can be tangible -- i.e. it is physical, you can touch it; or intangible – i.e. it has no physical form e.g. goodwill, a brand, intellectual property. Fixed assets are assets that are held for ...

Traditionally seen as the chief administrative office of the company, the role of the company secretary has been around for over a century. In today’s corporate climate, company secretaries are ...

For many IT freelancers, one-person companies, and small tech suppliers, contracts are something you get to eventually. The recruitment agency is keen, the client seems friendly, and the work needs to ...

Back when it was a year to the month of the seminal off-payroll rules, our members and us were told the following by a senior policy adviser at HMRC, writes Julia Kermode, chief executive of the ...