A payroll tax liability-responsibility shift from umbrellas to agencies dangerously throws the baby out with the bathwater. It must be stopped.

Avoiding running off agency PAYE reference numbers is how the government can avoid destabilising the UK’s entire temporary labour market.

Although still in the red, freelance tech hiring shows ‘improvements,’ finely balanced on next Wednesday’s Spring Statement 2025.

Contract workers must adjust to BRPs and ‘clipped’ no longer being acceptable RTW proof (even if you may feel like a second-class job-seeker).

Rachel Reeves is a chancellor ‘less about anything new and more about reaffirmation,’ so the ‘un-merry-go-round’ for UK contracting continues.

The Universal Credit Standard Allowance will increase from £92 per week in 2025-26 to £106 per week by 2029-30… … while the Universal Credit Health element will be cut for new claimants by 50% and ...

Despite a lean statement with no ‘further tax rises,’ umbrella and limited company workers aren’t off the hook, due to a ‘soon-to-be reinvigorated HMRC.’ ...

The bottom line is this -- umbrella regulation and the deemed employer proposal are not the same. They serve different purposes, are being developed by different departments, and will be enacted ...

Ex-Liverpool footballer and manager Phil Thompson appealed to the Upper Tier Tribunal against the decision handed down in December 2023 by the First Tier Tax Tribunal, which held that Thompson’s ...

Individual contractors working through an umbrella company, who want to understand if their pay and taxes are being dealt with correctly, can now request a free ‘payslip audit’ via our website, writes ...

The extremity of the measures that the government appears to want to take to regulate UK umbrella companies appears to have been underestimated, writes Lucy Smith, founder of Clarity Umbrella. At the ...

Three ‘umbrella company’ articles in a row on ContractorUK go some way to showing just how significant changes for umbrella companies and their users might be. But umbrella contractors aren’t the only ...