Contractors with a buy-to-let who believe Autumn Budget will be bruising face a choice: raise the rent, or get out now before ...

Whether it’s blue, red, or another hue, one party will finish conference season with the self-employed vote more in the bag ...

Despite concerns over its independence and scope, the ‘Freelance Champion’ won’t face any competition in its role supporting IT contractors.

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.

The chancellor is reportedly looking at raising the VAT registration threshold at Autumn Budget 2025 to £100,000. The move by Rachel Reeves would mean a PSC could generate an additional £10,000 in ...

A week is a long time in the contractor staffing company sector, it seems, writes investment and wealth management recruitment specialist Natalie Bowers, founder of Bowers Partnership. Just seven days ...

It very likely wasn’t her rumoured July 14th cuts to the cash ISA allowance that brought her to tears at a recent Prime Minister’s Questions, writes Angela James, founder of Yolo Wealth. But ...

A seemingly out-of-the-blue government pledge to “support the self-employed” is something we think all UK contractors can get behind, even if it’s been sounded mainly about Britain’s creative ...

Spring Statement 2025 affects contractors in potentially numerous ways – with ten devils in the detail, but it didn’t live up to its billing. Rachel Reeves’s second fiscal statement was such a damp ...

That work began in July – and I am proud of what we have delivered in just nine months.

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 ...