The UK's flagship infrastructure project, High Speed 2 (HS2), is once again under intense scrutiny. This week, The Guardian revealed that the railway's timeline has been pushed back beyond 2033, and ...

Calculate your net annual and monthly income if you are caught by IR35 Work out what your net annual and monthly income will be if your contract is caught by IR35, by using this calculator. IR35 was ...

Who doesn't like getting presents? No-one. And buying your client a gift is a perfectly acceptable way of demonstrating gratitude for the way they have treated you and worked with you. Sometimes it's ...

The Chancellor has today committed to repealing the Off-payroll legislation, which were supposed to reform IR35, but instead held businesses back. The IR35 Reforms, which rolled into the public and ...

HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool was exposed as a root cause of the continuing disruptions which led to hundreds of freelancers facing unjust retrospective tax bills at a Public ...

The House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee has implored HMRC and Government to scrap the fundamentally flawed Off-Payroll rules in favour of a fairer and more holistic approach in a report that ...

Potentially unlawful practices among certain recruiters and umbrella companies, in response to the public sector IR35 reforms, have left many contractors unjustly funding the tax obligations of their ...

Contractors working ‘inside IR35’ under the Off-Payroll rules should expect to receive a Key Information Document (KID) from their agency at the beginning of each new contract. A new initiative ...

The Conservative Government has finally announced an imminent fix to the legislative double-taxation" flaw in the Off-payroll legislation, which will apply retrospectively from 06 April 2017, ensuring ...

HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool has been exposed as biased and hopelessly unreliable, after a comprehensive re-testing of HMRC’s CEST test data obtained under FOI by ...

HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool does not fulfil the ‘reasonable care’ requirement set out within the Off-Payroll legislation, and so is unable to provide its users with any form of ...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has chosen to scrap the plans to repeal the Off-payroll IR35 Reforms, which Kwasi Kwarteng previously announced in his mini-budget on 23 September 2022.