Before the chancellor even gets to his feet on October 28th, the UK mortgage market is already pulling in two directions. Yet ...

Workers’ rights, not tax, look set to reshape UK contracting under Labour — a prospect my chat with chancellor John Healey ...

Will you still get paid on Friday if your umbrella company is sold? An adviser who’s been in the deal room sets out 10 ...

Not all umbrellas are equal. Two with no written contracts, with ‘their’ workers or their client, and which didn’t actually ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

With one month to go until Autumn Budget 2026, top contractor advisers have made ten predictions about what John Healey will announce for contractors — exclusively to ContractorUK. Speaking on ...

When Camino Alta principal John Whelan remarked that “HMRC is cruelly seeking to transfer debts to individuals” in the Churchill Knight (CK) and Boox Managed Service Company (MSC) cases, he urged ...

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 ...

“I knew it was a loan.” It is an important admission in the increasingly complicated dispute over historic contractor loan recalls. Not every contractor now facing demands relating to old remuneration ...