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Umbrella Companies
NICs hike: call for recruitment agencies and end clients to pay up for umbrella contractors
Recruitment agents and their end clients need to “step up to the plate and increase assignments fees to cover the cost to the worker”, according to the FCSA’s CEO, Chris Bryce.
The FCSA’s call for higher contractor pay, especially for…
What does JSA’s acquisition of 6CATS mean for contractors?
JSA Group, an umbrella company based in Watford, has made yet another acquisition, its eighth deal since 2018. This time it has acquired 6CATS Group, a London-based global independent contractor compliance and payment services business.…
Umbrella contractors: do you think your data has been leaked?
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Should umbrella company contractors, worried about recent cyber attacks, request a Protective Registration against their personal details? And expect a refund of the related expenses to be paid by their umbrella…
Umbrella Companies Could See A Spree Of Class Action suits From Workers Following New Judgment on…
During his six-year engagement with Pimlico Plumbers, Gary Smith, was never given any right to paid annual holidays, according to Michael Ford, QC at Old Square Chambers. But the heating engineer has seen a change of fate with the Court of…
Umbrella company workers slammed again
The Chancellor and Prime Minister have confirmed that the National Insurance rise will go ahead this April – a move that freelancers, contractors and their fellow small business owners know will hit them hard in the midst of a cost of…
IR35: umbrellas are feeding HMRC’s £3.6bn tax grab
IR35 expert, Qdos, has responded to the release of HMRC’s evidence put forward to the Finance Bill Sub Committee for their inquiry into IR35 reform in the private sector. Will the HMRC admit what the reform is really doing to British…
Flexeconomy: it contributes £37bn to the UK economy so why are agency contractors still excluded?
SPECIAL REPORT
Agency contractors: where do they fit within the "Flexeconomy"?
What's in this report:
Flexibilty for all: cultural change in mind-set and how to argue your case for flexible workingUmbrella companies and…
HMRC handed new powers to Clampdown on promoters of tax avoidance schemes
UMBRELLA COMPANY CONTRACTORS
ICAEW warns that the current legislative phrasing provides HMRC with “a very wide-ranging power with extremely serious consequences.”
The government is giving the nation's tax authority, the HMRC, more…
Are umbrella companies really exploiting contractors?
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