PCG calls for contractors to support Small Business Saturday
Whether you're a freelancer or an umbrella company contractor it's in your best interest to support Small Business Saturday, says one major industry body.
HMRC finally takes pity on the poor umbrella worker
Tax guidance for self-employed Brits such as umbrella company contractors is set to finally get a bit more easy, thanks to a new initiative.
New Best Practice Charter gains traction among umbrella firms
It hasn't been long since the new umbrella contractor trade industry body known as All Umbrella Companies Are Equal has launched, but i's making serious waves.
HMRC get tough on tax fraud; umbrellas offer contractors safe haven
HMRC took on more cases, made more arrests and won more criminal convictions in 2012 than in 2011. With a £900m cash injection, those figures will only rise.
IR35 Forum members are disappointed with HMRC
Within hours on HMRC publishing its IR35 guidance, members of the IR35 Forum issued a statement saying the document did not take key elements of their advice into consideration.
HMRC publishes IR35 Business Entity Tests
The long awaited IR35 guidance was published on Wednesday. The guidance will enable contractors to determine if their contract is disguised employment or if they really are in business in their own right.
Six IR35 scenarios to be published on HMRC website
Umbrella company contractors are no doubt waiting to find out what the government intends to do about IR35.
Are umbrella company contractors waiting with bated breath for the Budget?
It’s Budget Day tomorrow; the weeks of speculation will be over and UK taxpayers, including umbrella company contractors, will discover what is in store for them over the next 12 months.
Will the latest OTS recommendation for IR35 be implemented?
Umbrella company contractors may start to see the results of the Office of Tax Simplification’s work on IR35 as early as April 6th.
HMRC finalises new IR35 regime for contractors
Umbrella contractors may be interested to learn that the Revenue is getting near to finalising the new regime for IR35.
Are Government contractors exempt from IR35?
No sooner has the furore surrounding Mr Lester died down, it now transpires that the Department of Health has been paying 25 senior members of staff through limited companies. In fact more than £4 million has been paid out in this way.
Umbrella company contractors need not fear new GAAR
Some umbrella company contractors have been getting anxious in case HMRC uses the newly proposed GAAR to hound them.
