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 ...

The hopes last October when the government announced that there would be another loan charge review were high, following the promise made by Rachel Reeves when in opposition. However, the hopes were ...

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 ...

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, ...

The hardest IR35 factor to consider/argue? The biggest IR35 headache for contractors? On both fronts, it's MOO. Mutuality Of Obligations ('MOO' or even sometimes 'MoO') can sometimes be referred to as ...