Chancellor refrains from a £5k dividend raid (for now), saying there won’t be a rerun of last autumn’s bruising.

Replacing like-for-like would be lamentable, even if BritCard is apparently going to be free and seamless technology.

It’s odd to me that “contractors” aren’t specifically named as one of the parties that HMRC wants to hear from in response to its consultation unveiled at Spring Statement 2025, “Closing in on ...

Although the truth isn’t getting in the way of a good LinkedIn post, there are genuine lessons to learn from IT director Ben Wicken v Akita Systems Ltd.

TV host Ant Middleton is among the famous (and not-so-famous) faces falling foul of the Insolvency Service, with disqualification orders in just three cases totalling 16 years.

The build-up to Autumn Budget 2017 is still being dominated by speculation over whether April’s IR35 reforms will be extended to the private sector, but this is far from the only issue at stake for ...

Having binned both the net migration target and Tier 1’s cap, the government is told Tier 2 salary must be next in its sights.

A leaked memo from the deputy PM to the chancellor asks for a £5,000+ cut to limited company contractor take-home pay.

He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...

It’s interesting to see that it’s not only us who favours simply carrying on -- as you were before – in the immediate aftermath of a potentially far-reaching referendum result. In fact, although ...

This government (like the last) cannot settle on the self-employed, subjecting them to a never-ending, legislative merry-go-round.