Complete 2025 guide for contractors working abroad. From visas to tax compliance and country-specific requirements.

Complete 2025 guide for contractors working through umbrella companies. From costs to compliance, everything you need to know.

Not seeking a repeal of the OPW rules is a wasted opportunity. And since 2017, the UK has known plenty about ‘wasted opportunity’ — by leaving its contractor workforce shackled.

Where Rachel Reeves can prove next month that the government finally understands what the UK’s flexible workforce needs to thrive.

Six off-payroll working areas are screaming out for improvement, regardless of which political party gets there first, if at all.

The Tory leader wants to cut contractors’ moving home costs by thousands. Look out for Labour’s halfway house measure next month.

Seasonal factors have helped the still-shrinking temporary IT jobs market move towards growth for the first time in four months.

We might have an autumn budget looming before we even get to 2025-26, but the recruitment and contractor services industry has been subject to continuous regulation for several decades. It is ...

Headlines and LinkedIn posts asserting "HMRC lands £1million penalty against a contractor umbrella company" are right to turn heads. But when is a penalty not truly a penalty? Well, in the eyes of ...

For contractors to assess themselves under the IR35 legislation, it is necessary to subdivide the key IR35 status factor of 'Control' into the 'when', the 'what', the 'where' and the 'how,' of ...

The "sunnier outlook" among UK hirers in July 2025 may be starting to shine on IT contractors too, despite rays of growth in August 2025 remaining elusive. According to agency staffing body the REC, ...