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

An ignoble nine directors are a warning not to ignore, especially for contractors with BBL concerns who are about to close. The Covid inquiry isn't the only brutal hangover from the pandemic to give ...

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 ...

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.

The Intermediaries legislation of 2000 has made life ‘very, very difficult’ for contractors, so it too would be abolished ...

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 ...

A few good reasons why the 'token gesture' should avoid the axe probably need offsetting against alignment and adjustment risks to dividends on Nov 26th. With the Autumn Budget 2025 on the horizon, ...

The off-payroll working rules have returned to the political agenda with Andrew Griffith MP vowing that the Conservatives would "look again at reforming IR35". Is looking at reforming IR35 a realistic ...

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, ...