Ahead of Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget 2025 on 26 November, ContractorUK brings together analysis and reaction from across the contracting sector.

As the government continues to flatter IR35, the data needed to truly gauge the full, detrimental impact of the HMRC rules is conveniently not being disclosed.

The “interesting” case of the nurse who won at the ET, but who’s now lost at the EAT, contains some key admissions for Labour, as well.

You may have noticed, HMRC is on a roll. Revenue & Customs seems to be winning all its recent IR35 tribunals and, in the main, doing so emphatically. Several cases have made their way to the Upper ...

Nigel Farage has doubled down on Reform UK's proposal to scrap IR35, framing it as the showpiece policy of a new campaigning organisation, Small Business for Reform. Calling company directors "up and ...

There’s no final bill or liability admission. But the Welsh government agency set up to sustainably manage the environment clearly didn’t manage off-payroll worker status properly.

The taxman has 14 million reasons to feel like he’s come out on top, even if it is wooden dollars which changed hands four ...

Quick Tip: If an insolvency adviser promises a "No questions asked" escape from company liabilities — if it's not the law of the land, it's probably not legal. While an easy lure, such false promises ...

HMRC will unveil ‘CEST 2.0’, a new and hopefully improved version of its IR35 status-testing tool, later today, ContractorUK understands. An update to Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) made 40 ...