The File
The File
Every article, by year — 363 in all, 2000–2026.
363 ARTICLES
2000–2026
10 DESKS
2000–2026
10 DESKS
2000The dot-com peak: skills shortages, overseas recruitment and the first shadow of a new tax rule.8
2001IR35 lands. A year dominated by the contractors' revolt, the PCG's legal challenge and a cooling IT market.139
2002The fight continues through the courts and Whitehall as the downturn bites and rates slide.141
2003Consolidation: the market steadies and the policy battles move to slower ground.40
2004Offshoring bites: outsourcing anxiety, online-fraud scares and a contractor market finding its feet.10
2005A late entry — the UK measured against its digital ambitions.1
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2026-07-08Temporary and Contract Hiring Leads the UK Labour Market RecoveryBusiness2026-06-19CEST Use Collapses as Firms Seek More Certain IR35 AssessmentsIR352026-05-06Umbrella Only Hiring Is Driving IT Contractors Away, Survey FindsBusiness2026-04-06Umbrella Tax Liability Rules Put Agencies on the Hook for Unpaid PAYEBusiness2026-03-17Technology Contract Market Weakens as AI Reshapes Specialist DemandIT2026-02-04Post Office’s £104 Million IR35 Bill Exposes the Cost of MisclassificationIR352026-01-29Outside IR35 Shortage Tops Contractor Fears for 2026IR352025-12-16HMRC writes to 864,000 traders as digital tax deadline moves inside four monthsBusiness2025-11-26Budget Dividend Tax Increase Deals Another Blow to Limited Company ContractorsBusiness2025-10-10Contract market cools again in September as employers freeze hiring before the BudgetBusiness2025-09-17Umbrella Company Tax Risk Moves Up the Contractor Supply ChainBusiness2025-08-05Companies House Announces Mandatory Identity Checks for Contractor Company DirectorsBusiness2025-07-21Draft Finance Bill hands HMRC criminal powers over tax-avoidance promotersBusiness2025-06-23Government Technology Plan Signals New Work in AI, Cybersecurity and Quantum ComputingIT2025-05-08HMRC Revises CEST as IR35 Status Checks Face Renewed ScrutinyIR352025-04-06Umbrella contractors bear the 15% employer NIC rise as the new tax year beginsBusiness2025-03-26Spring Statement leaves IR35 alone as HMRC lines up a £1bn compliance pushPolitics2025-02-26MPs tell Reeves the loan charge review is drawn too narrowly to reach contractorsPolitics2025-01-31HMRC logs 11.5 million on-time tax returns but 1.1 million miss the 31 January deadlineBusiness2024-12-17National Insurance Bill clears the Commons, and umbrella contractors will absorb the risePolitics2024-11-26Agencies to answer for umbrella PAYE from April 2026 as employment rights bill reaches committeeIR352024-10-30Reeves lifts employer NIC to 15% and shifts umbrella PAYE liability onto agenciesPolitics2024-09-16Supreme Court referee ruling redraws the mutuality and control tests behind IR35IR352024-08-27Starmer's 'painful' Budget warning puts contractor dividends and CGT in the framePolitics2005-11-15Key report shows UK is IT 'underachiever'Politics2004-05-03Armed eBay user 'wanted to talk' to auction winnerIT2004-04-09Western work will return if East is overusedBusiness2004-04-04Confidence tricksters catch surfers hook, line and sinkerIT2004-03-17Why aren't you using Linux?IT2004-03-01'Phishers' net £60m from online bankersIT2004-02-21Next-Gen contractors to beat 'old IT'Business2004-02-06What's the e-Envoy got to do with IT?Politics2004-01-24How IT is shaping up in 2004Business2004-01-08Demand for IT contractors ranks secondAgencies2004-01-07Offshore outsourcing is turning on its mastersBusiness2003-12-10Counting the casualties of 'outsourcing creep'Business2003-11-13Making big brother pay: ID card opportunitiesPolitics2003-11-12E-mail abuse increases at workIT2003-11-09IT contractor demand rises at fastest rate since 1998Agencies2003-11-06IT managers 'are excluded in business'Business2003-10-22Open source of opportunityIT2003-10-07Middle Eastern appeal for 'resting' contractorsBusiness2003-09-16IT demand strongest since 1998, says RECAgencies2003-09-11Outsourcing crisis brewing, warns UK CEOBusiness2003-09-03Online giants go to war against ID thievesIT2003-08-31Ireland's bid to rescue beaten ICT BritsBusiness2003-04-06Business execs call IT shotsBusiness2003-03-18Cambridge is UK's highest paying IT regionBusiness2003-03-14IT students get corporate backingIT2003-03-13World's largest IT gathering hopes to spark growthBusiness2003-03-12Snooping plan updates are not enough, campaigners sayPolitics2003-03-10New speed record shows UK broadband upIT2003-03-08Freelance IT demand holding steadyBusiness2003-03-07Ditched telco leaves freelancers empty-handedBusiness2003-03-05Another offshore outsourcing boom could harm IndiaBusiness2003-03-04Job market decline has ceased, says JobstatsBusiness2003-03-03China could soon be second in world ITBusiness2003-02-11Senator overwhelmed by IT support for outsourcing banPolitics2003-02-11e-commerce weathering downturnBusiness2003-02-06Freelance IT climbs further ahead of other sectorsBusiness2003-02-06Doublespeak? Surveillance at twice WW2 levelsIT2003-01-29What's happened to the freelancer premium?Business2003-01-29IT freelancing perils highlighted by womenIT2003-01-27Europe must be friendlier to entrepreneursBusiness2003-01-24"Get your daggers out!" agencies toldAgencies2003-01-21"The Koreans are coming!"Business2003-01-20Revenue denies selling taxpayers' infoBusiness2003-01-14The Low-down: Part 3 - Agencies' outlook for 2003Agencies2003-01-13Education gets IT boostIT2003-01-13Revenue chief warns of "ruthless" crackdownBusiness2003-01-09IT demand leapfrogs other sectorsBusiness2003-01-09The Agency Low-down: Part 2 - Rates and margins...Agencies2003-01-08The Agency Low-down: Part 1 - Where the work is...Agencies2003-01-032002: Stories that shaped the yearBusiness2003-01-02UK surfers hogged web over ChristmasIT2002-12-31Government will 'make or break' business in 2003, says CBIBusiness2002-12-23Broadband pressure group slams OFTEL findingsBusiness2002-12-20"Ridiculous nonsense of IR35" slammed in ParliamentIR352002-12-18Skills monitor reveals 140,000 IT joblessBusiness2002-12-18e-commerce fraud will cost US $500 millionBusinessOn this day
Draft Finance Bill hands HMRC criminal powers over tax-avoidance promoters
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