None of us ever appears quite as we hope, particularly if you miss this Wednesday’s webinar and get checked out via ‘LinkedIn Recruiter.’ ...

Public liability Insurance, also known as PL insurance or contractor liability insurance, can be essential for contractors who visit clients in person, interact with the public or deal with suppliers.

Free UK Income Tax Calculator for 2025/26. Enter your salary to see income tax, employee NI and take-home pay, with monthly & annual breakdowns.

If PAYE/NICs to the taxman fall short under both Chapters 11 and 7, the top agency or MSP is on the hook. And if there’s no agency or no umbrella, the end-client is on the hook.

An imagining of an umbrella contractor’s life ‘on the ground’ after April 2026, with a focus on the practical effects of the main principles of Joint & Several Liability.

Contractor UKLucy has been in the umbrella market since 2013, and has always been an advocate of compliance and transparency in this industry. Offering Clarity by name and by reputation! Lucy has sat ...

The UK’s new SBC Emma Jones exclusively invites ContractorUK readers to respond to ‘Late Payments: tackling poor payment practices.’ ...

He’s ‘not self-employed’ therefore he must be ‘a worker,’ said the Court of Appeal in the recent Pimlico Plumbers case., writes Adrian Marlowe, managing director of Lawspeed. In reaching this decision ...

The issue I allude to is the sheer unhelpfulness of ‘job titles’ for contractors, and the ongoing misconception by agencies that it is acceptable to describe the services to be provided as a job e.g.

Policy-makers’ focus on 665,000 Personal Service Companies must be sharpened to untangle them from the web that successive governments have ensnared them in.