The withdrawal of an Employment Rights Bill amendment isn’t the last contractors will hear of a brolly licensing authority. Not if we have anything to do with it.

When insolvency experts like us wind up recruitment companies, it’s proactivity that often separates the paid from the unpaid.

If you need to send a formal payment request to a bust recruitment agency — or any other commercial debtor — you can use this free payment template below as a basis for an email or hard-copy postal ...

There's always room for innovation and reinventing the wheel, but let's take a step back and apply some common sense here — if the CV is truly dead, where is the clamour to replace it? And not to put ...

The hardest IR35 factor to consider/argue? The biggest IR35 headache for contractors? On both fronts, it's MOO. Mutuality Of Obligations ('MOO' or even sometimes 'MoO') can sometimes be referred to as ...

As Europe’s largest economy, Germany has long been rich with opportunity for contractors seeking assignments overseas. The coronavirus pandemic however, impacted demand for talent across the region.

The government’s focus is firmly on umbrella companies, but ‘there’s still a lot on the table’ that chancellor Rachel Reeves could hit contractors with 12 weeks from now. Contractor tax and accounting ...

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Jason Piper, a senior manager in tax and business law at the ACCA gave evidence to a Lords enquiry into Personal Service Companies. Here, exclusively for ContractorUK, he explains what a PSC is; where ...

There are many benefits to the life of a contractor. The perks and freedoms of being your own boss; variety in your work, opportunities to monetise your skills and knowledge in ways you would rarely ...

‘Umbrella or PAYE: what is the difference?’ It’s a fair question, a good question even, but first we ought to ask a more fundamental one, writes Lucy Smith, managing director of Clarity Umbrella. And ...

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 ...