There’s a new witty banner on LinkedIn. But it doesn’t filter to agencies, nor does it give the outside IR35 points you probably want.

What will your end-clients identify as? That is the question an HMRC update sets up as significant for April 6th 2027.

Zero-hours workers are today’s IT contractors from the 1990s; HMRC’s thinking needs to catch up with that reality.

A slight adjustment to the government’s train of thought could avoid derailing the umbrella industry for the 700,000 employees who rely on it.

Accreditation body welcomes Lord Holmes’ clause to subject every ‘employment business participating in employment arrangements’ to a ‘licensing authority.’ ...

Don’t hang onto your CV like it’s sacred. Start afresh and build it from the ground up – for EVERY role you go forward for.

ContractorUK’s IT Contract Jobs Search brings you thousands of contracts from the biggest IT job sites. Are you looking for a new contract job? Use the job search below to find a new contract. There ...

On August 22nd 2018, HMRC published a response to a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, for details of status cases that have been tested against its Check Employment Status for Tax ...

He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...

Hear the words ‘quarterly accounting’ and contractors’ eyes might glaze over to the thought that it’s definitely nothing to do with them, and everything to do with accountants. While half of that’s ...

It is widely predicted that in time the responsibility for setting the employment status of private sector contractors will be handed to the companies that engage them, similar to recent reform in the ...

Any hope the government has of winning back the political support of contractors rests in 2018 with its officials rethinking its position on IR35, writes Seb Maley, chief executive of Qdos Contractor.