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Who is calling the shots here, HMRC or the umbrella companies? That's a question hundreds of thousands of temp workers and contractors have been as...
From the day you start working as a temp or agency worker, you have a handful of workers' employment rights. But did you know that once you work in...
Michelle Mone’s husband linked to three tax avoidance schemes Loan Charge “tragedy” linked to tenth suicide UK Business Secretary Grant...
The government has shelved plans to introduce the Single Enforcement Body (SEB) for employment rights, which included a strategy to regul...
Not all umbrella company PAYE schemes are what they seem says contractor tax specialist In a recent LinkedIn post, Graham Webber Director of Tax at...
This article has been updated. OPINION While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will...
On the back of fresh allegations that another of the UK’s leading umbrella companies has been ‘skimming’ millions from contractors’ paysl...
The Freelance Informer asks Contractor Voice's Jacob Bellas about the latest report of alleged umbrella company payslip skimming. What has his audi...
The Freelance Informer asks Fred Dures of PayePass how funding raised by taxpayers to prevent the proliferation of tax avoidance schemes can be jus...
Osborne Clarke’s Workforce Solutions team explains the wider impacts on the UK workforce and those that serve it following the Supreme Court decisi...
This article has been updated Judges have ruled that umbrella provider Exchequer Solutions owes HMRC £11m in unpaid tax, but will contractors end u...
The HMRC may be urging customers to leave another tax avoidance scheme promoted by an umbrella company, but there's no talk yet of making the Londo...