Complete 2025 guide for contractors working abroad. From visas to tax compliance and country-specific requirements.

The Ray McCann review of the loan charge settlement terms — and the government's response to it — will be published by Autumn Budget 2025. Dan Tomlinson, a Treasury minister, told the House of Commons ...

Complete 2025 guide for contractors working through umbrella companies. From costs to compliance, everything you need to know.

Not seeking a repeal of the OPW rules is a wasted opportunity. And since 2017, the UK has known plenty about ‘wasted opportunity’ — by leaving its contractor workforce shackled.

Where Rachel Reeves can prove next month that the government finally understands what the UK’s flexible workforce needs to thrive.

Six off-payroll working areas are screaming out for improvement, regardless of which political party gets there first, if at all.

From April 2026, new HMRC rules mean that if an umbrella company manipulates your tax, the liability for any unpaid tax, in most cases, should fall on the recruitment agency (or sometimes the ...

Headlines and LinkedIn posts asserting "HMRC lands £1million penalty against a contractor umbrella company" are right to turn heads. But when is a penalty not truly a penalty? Well, in the eyes of ...

For contractors to assess themselves under the IR35 legislation, it is necessary to subdivide the key IR35 status factor of 'Control' into the 'when', the 'what', the 'where' and the 'how,' of ...

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 ...