The FDE market is no longer the exclusive preserve of a handful of headline AI firms. With the right technical and ...

App Accounting Group contractors getting their 10 days against HMRC is an important milestone. Yet answers at the FTT hearing ...

The new Makerfield MP is tipped by the cautiously optimistic-sounding contractor sector to be the next PM — and even if his ...

Focusing on just figures if probed by HMRC over VAT is a fool’s errand. Far safer to evidence, explain and justify EVERYTHING ...

Operations Director at Caroola Accountancy, where he has over 15 years of experience supporting UK contractors. Carl joined Caroola Accountancy in 2011 as an assistant accountant and has progressed ...

‘Umbrella or PAYE: what is the difference?’ It’s a fair question, a good question even, but first we ought to ask a more fundamental one, writes Lucy Smith, managing director of Clarity Umbrella. And ...

I can see why the Office of the Small Business Commissioner (SBC) and other late payment critics are chalking it up as a win. I’m referring, of course, to the welcome fact that after those same three ...

The HMRC-approved mileage rate for cars and vans has been increased to 55p from 45p for the first 10,000 miles. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the 10 pence increase to the tax-free ‘AMAP’ rate on ...

The hiring spree behind ‘one of the most in-demand jobs in tech, and one of the most important functions for AI rollouts,’ just found its contractor feet. And it’s now paying out up to £2,000 a day.

VAT can seem daunting, but as 2025-26 dawns, have you considered making life easier by using the Flat Rate Scheme? In fact, while VAT can be complex, what if there was a way to make Value Added Tax ...

It’s been mentioned twice recently on ContractorUK, firstly by an umbrella company and then by an overseas working adviser and perhaps it does bear repeating, because the application of the IR35 rules ...

Before we look at a filing dormant company accounts, with both an example and explainer, let’s first establish the whys and wherefores, writes Matt Fryer, managing director of contractor accountancy ...