Where contractors in IT and other key sectors of the UK economy will want to be on the lookout in the year ahead.

While Joint & Several Liability is already triggering requests that deserve short shrift, the Finance Bill alone won’t ...

What’s in store for IT contractors this year, according to a veteran freelance business analyst who’s seen off recessions, AI ...

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 ...

When a limited company’s directors declare a dividend, two documents must be produced – board meeting minutes and a dividend voucher for each shareholder, writes Zeeshan Anwar, head of compliance at ...

Following significant changes to the Agency Legislation in 2014 designed to tackle false self-employment, the intermediaries reporting requirements came into force from April 2015, with further ...

When you are contracting, you may come across the expression ‘self-billing arrangement’ or ‘self-billing agreement’. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, I will clarify what these potentially opaque ...

Check Employment Status for Tax, or CEST as it’s more commonly known, is fairly controversial to say the least, writes tax lawyer Rebecca Seeley Harris of CEST Training.* Built by HMRC, the online ...

Self-employed, working through their own limited company; Engaged to do work for a particular client; And to all intents and purposes, would be an employee if it wasn’t for the fact of being engaged ...

It’s been mentioned twice recently on ContractorUK, firstly by an umbrella company and then by an overseas working adviser and perhaps it does bear repeating, because the application of the IR35 rules ...

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 ...

It’s human nature to feel under the weather from time-to-time, and you may find that as a result you’re unable to work. So when you’re contracting through your own limited company, where do you stand ...