About

UKTECH is a news record of the United Kingdom's IT contracting industry and the tax and employment rules that govern it. Its archive begins on 15 March 2000, three weeks before the intermediaries legislation known as IR35 took effect, and runs to the present day. It holds more than 2,600 articles.

What it covers

The site reports on five things and has done so since its first month: the business of freelancing through a limited company, the politics and Budgets that shape it, the IR35 and off-payroll rules and the cases that test them, the recruitment agencies and umbrella companies that make up the supply chain, and the technology market itself, from the dot-com peak and offshoring to artificial intelligence. Around those primary desks sit expert columns, conference papers, reader letters and viewpoint pieces from across the contracting world.

History

The record began in March 2000 as a daily dispatch service for IT contractors facing the arrival of IR35, written by Richard Powell and a small group of contributors. It reported the 2001 judicial review of IR35, the Arctic Systems case, the managed service company rules, the 2017 and 2021 off-payroll reforms, the loan charge and the umbrella rules of 2026 as they happened. The archive was consolidated, edited and republished in its present form in 2026, with every article restored to a clean text, dated and placed on its original desk. Where the original reporting has been corrected, the correction is noted in the article.

Who publishes it

UKTECH is owned and published by Videowire Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under number 06541901. Richard Powell is the site's founding correspondent. The current reporting is written by the UKTECH newsdesk under the editorial policy set out on this site. The newsdesk can be reached at newsdesk@uktech.org.

How to use the archive

Every article carries its original date and desk. The topic pages gather the archive's reporting on the subjects it has followed longest, with an explainer that is reviewed and dated. The archive index lists every year with a note on what defined it. The search covers every article. Articles may be quoted with attribution and a link; requests to reproduce a full article should go to the newsdesk.