Ex-Liverpool footballer and manager Phil Thompson appealed to the Upper Tier Tribunal against the decision handed down in December 2023 by the First Tier Tax Tribunal, which held that Thompson’s ...

A payroll tax liability-responsibility shift from umbrellas to agencies dangerously throws the baby out with the bathwater. It must be stopped.

Avoiding running off agency PAYE reference numbers is how the government can avoid destabilising the UK’s entire temporary labour market.

Contract workers must adjust to BRPs and ‘clipped’ no longer being acceptable RTW proof (even if you may feel like a second-class job-seeker).

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

LITRG: As part of helping the unrepresented be informed, we’re calling in technology to automate your next deductions double-check.

An off-payroll rules update by HMRC is far from the full story. But the subtext is clear – the reformed IR35 rules aren’t going anywhere.

The extremity of the measures that the government appears to want to take to regulate UK umbrella companies appears to have been underestimated, writes Lucy Smith, founder of Clarity Umbrella. At the ...

The Labour government has replied to the Tory consultation “Tackling non-compliance in the umbrella company market.” Despite the changeover at No 10, the reply focuses on four umbrella regulation ...

Late last month, HMRC showed how it wants to radically change the way IR35 works for contractors in the public sector in a set of proposals that are nothing short of worrying, writes Andrew ...