From business planning to sorting your accounts, starting out as a contractor can feel like a lot. Here’s how new contractors can forget the faff and hit the ground running.

Must-knows when mulling ‘flying under the radar’ by executing a UK contract from foreign shores. Outside to blanket-inside IR35-fears are among the concerns of a contractor whose EU client clearly ...

An HMRC update clarifies that while the starting gun may be unholstered in April 2026, it won’t be fired until April 2027.

Enjoy the freedom of contracting with the added benefits of continuous employment, making applying for loans and mortgages easier.

Our contractor calculator section provides you with a detailed illustration of what you could earn as a contractor. Whether it's operating through your own limited company or via an umbrella company, ...

To put a CV refresh fee on your company, coordinating closely with the rewriter is key, assuming you want to sleep at night. Avoid these CV clangers, and you’ll start next year better off than a fair ...

Companies House is a government agency that keeps details of every single limited company in the country.

One of the most important things to consider as a contractor is what rate you will charge your clients. Contractor rates not only depend on your skills or experience as a contractor, but various other ...

Twenty-five common legal words a standard tech contract will invariably throw at you. Honour, embed and execute the following to succeed as a freelance software engineer. Especially if your GitHub is ...

Our VAT calculator can be used to either add VAT to the figure entered or subtract VAT to leave the non-VAT amount. The results page breaks the figures down into the net amount, the VAT portion and ...

Contractor's Question : Do I have the right to go to the client for whom I am working for and ask how much they are paying my recruitment company for me? What is the agency margin on which recruiters ...

On August 22nd 2018, HMRC published a response to a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, for details of status cases that have been tested against its Check Employment Status for Tax ...