The recent news that High Speed 2 Limited (HS2) has agreed to pay £6.2million to HMRC for failing to comply with the OPW rules is the latest example of a public body falling foul of this legislation, ...

Angela James at Yolo Wealth has dedicated the last decade to providing advice tailored to contractors and freelancers, working in partnership with Contractor UK and its readers over this time.

The taxman’s ‘naming and shaming’ just passed a major milestone, mirroring ‘increasing concern about umbrella supply chains.’ ...

Supreme Court sides with the taxman by ruling that if there’s a contract, there’s mutual obligations -- thereby removing MoO as a future outside IR35 ‘battleground’.

Are you an experienced Project Manager with M&A or pre-merger experience? Do you have experience of planning, monitoring, and controlling end-to-end projects across business change, communications, ...

There is a lot to consider when making the leap into contracting. How do you find contract jobs? How much can you earn? How do you write your CV? What’s IR35? Do you use an umbrella company or start ...

To put a CV refresh fee on your company, coordinating closely with the rewriter is key, assuming you want to sleep at night. Avoid these CV clangers, and you’ll start next year better off than a fair ...

ContractorUK has provided you with an IR35 tax calculator in order for you to calculate how IR35 can affect your income. IR35 affects contractors who do not meet the Inland Revenue's definition of ...

Many unwary contractors, and even some very wary ones, have been caught out by some very devious agency tricks. To be forewarned is to be forearmed though. Here are ten agency tricks that you should ...

Companies House is a government agency that keeps details of every single limited company in the country.

One of the most important things to consider as a contractor is what rate you will charge your clients. Contractor rates not only depend on your skills or experience as a contractor, but various other ...

On LinkedIn, I’m regularly approached by other contractors who can’t get their head around how to operate – in the view of HMRC – on an Outside IR35 basis. The number one complaint from these ...