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A huge array of small and medium-sized enterprises, numerous umbrella companies among them, will need to be fully compliant with the government’s pensions auto-enrolment scheme by July 2016. It [...]

One of the reasons why new accountancy software packages are risky for limited company and personal service company contractors attempting ‘do-it-yourself’ accounting is that the UK tax system is [...]

This summer’s budget affected the taxation of Personal Service Companies (PSCs) significantly, and there are strong intimations issuing from Government sources that even more profound changes to [...]

Those members of the professional contracting community who choose not to work through umbrella companies are faced with frankly onerous administrative obligations. Not the least of those is [...]

Quite possibly the biggest challenges facing the UK’s professional contracting community in the year ahead derive from the discussion document on IR35 Intermediaries Legislation and the [...]

The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement on 25 November was not as seismic from a tax perspective as some pundits had predicted. Nonetheless, it contained a number of previously unannounced tax [...]

One of the business world’s favourite clichés is that success is more about who you know than what you know. Whether or not this is actually true in practice, it is fair to say that networking [...]

Few can deny that social media represents the future of communications. The ever-growing range of social media platforms have given us an unprecedented level of connectivity and the ability to [...]

Working from home has long been a popular concept in principle, particularly with employees, but does not always work well in practice. Some of the biggest challenges have historically been from [...]

Outsourcing as a concept is nothing new in the world of recruitment. For several industries, it has always been the way they have brought the right people with the right skills on board at the [...]