Robert Walters’ Jason King sets chancellor John Healey three Budget 2026 tasks to boost IT contractor hiring: fund AI skills, ...

FCSA has expelled MyPay after HMRC’s winding-up petition, but the umbrella still claims accreditation. An ex-HMRC inspector says steer clear, the REC urges caution, and APSCo tells agencies to ...

Don’t expect an IR35 rewrite on October 28th, say SG Accounting and Bright Ideas. Instead, brace for a tech-led HMRC (Caroola ...

With Churchill Knight’s tribunal due in November and one contractor facing an alleged £52,700 bill, a former HMRC specialist ...

HMRC reckoned no other impacts of JSL had been identified. Compliant small umbrellas squeezed off agency PSLs tell a different story, as does the growing number of live petitions by the taxman, and ...

Winners and judges react after the 2026 Contracting Awards in London, where several of last year’s victors successfully defended their titles, the first AI award was handed out, and one broker made it ...

UK demand for contract IT skills climbed in August 2026, growing for the second month in a row despite the seasonally quiet time, and to its greatest buoyancy since April 2023, says the REC. The ...

Press reports that HMRC is contacting thousands of taxpayers as it manually reviews 107,000 tax calculations from 2025/26 that it suspects could be wrong are understandably causing concern. While the ...

Inside IR35 contractors are, in effect, an unnoticed group that the government’s zero-hours contract rule changes should be carving out but currently aren’t. Alongside other temporary agency workers, ...

Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith has pledged that a future Tory government would outright replace IR35, prompting two advisers who met him about the rule to tell ContractorUK what could replace it.

Facing a £14.8million IR35 bill, the FCDO has put 438 of its 500 contractors (88%) inside IR35, up from about half a year ago. Those five steps, which I’ll expand on later, matter for public sector ...