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Umbrella Companies
Is something is brewing in Westminster about umbrella non-compliance
The jury is still out as to whether the Spring Budget will include an announcement on what the government will do next to crack down on unlicensed or non-compliant umbrella companies. But according to Osborne Clarke Workforce Solutions,…
Has the Chancellor forgotten his self-employed roots now that he is in politics and made his money?
OPINION
How can a once entrepreneur-turned-Chancellor sit comfortably with the "immorality of IR35's double-taxation"? This is just one of the concerns that the UK's self-employed, umbrella company workers and those advocating for their…
Apprentice levy loophole smacks of injustice for umbrella company workers and contractors
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 asking about a government tax loophole that allows temp workers to pay Apprentice Levies,…
Temp and agency workers: are you taking advantage of your “equal treatment” rights?
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 the same job for 12 weeks (3 months) you have the same rights as someone employed directly?…
Naming and shaming tax avoidance schemes won’t stop loan charge suicides
Michelle Mone’s husband linked to three tax avoidance schemes
Loan Charge “tragedy” linked to tenth suicide
UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps' decision to not implement a single labour market enforcement agency (as…
Government shelves plans to regulate umbrella industry leaving workers exposed to skimming, tax…
The government has shelved plans to introduce the Single Enforcement Body (SEB) for employment rights, which included a strategy to regulate the umbrella industry. The SEB was to be introduced to protect workers’ rights and…
Contractors: tax specialist says avoid offshore umbrella PAYE schemes
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 WTT Consulting, which is a specialist in contractor tax, highlighted that contractor tax…
Salary skimming: whose money is actually being deducted?
This article has been updated.
OPINION
While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will be interested to know that "salary skimming" has no definition in the FCSA's codes of…
Liquid Friday CEO responds to ‘skimming’ accusations
On the back of fresh allegations that another of the UK’s leading umbrella companies has been ‘skimming’ millions from contractors’ payslips – reportedly amounting to a 1.5% deduction from contractors’ pay – umbrella payroll…
“You’ve been skimmed” – the last thing an umbrella contractor wants to hear
The Freelance Informer asks Contractor Voice's Jacob Bellas about the latest report of alleged umbrella company payslip skimming. What has his audit and investigation revealed?
Contractor Voice, an advocacy news and campaign site for…