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.

If you're a contractor thinking about closing your limited company, Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) can make a big difference to how much tax you'll pay to HMRC. Lifting the lid on how BADR ...

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 ...

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

Self-employment isn’t a tax dodge — it’s a benefits gap. Fixing it with ‘parity’ would cost the Treasury more than it’d raise.

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 ...

As readers of LinkedIn posts in the umbrella company sphere will be aware, there is currently a fairly public and heated disagreement between Contractor Voice and the Freelancer & Contractor Services ...