https://uktech.org/ The IT-contracting & tax record en-gb Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 newsdesk@uktech.org (UKTECH newsdesk) newsdesk@uktech.org https://uktech.org/a/temporary-and-contract-hiring-leads-the-uk-labour-market-recovery.html https://uktech.org/a/temporary-and-contract-hiring-leads-the-uk-labour-market-recovery.html Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business Temporary billings grew at the fastest rate since April 2023 as employers used flexible workers to advance shorter projects without committing to… https://uktech.org/a/cest-use-collapses-as-firms-seek-more-certain-ir35-assessments.html https://uktech.org/a/cest-use-collapses-as-firms-seek-more-certain-ir35-assessments.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 Use of HMRC’s employment status tool fell by 71 per cent in two years, according to Freedom of Information data, as clients moved towards alternative IR35… https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-only-hiring-is-driving-it-contractors-away-survey-finds.html https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-only-hiring-is-driving-it-contractors-away-survey-finds.html Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business A survey of 730 contractors and freelancers found that umbrella working was effectively compulsory in many agency engagements, despite widespread concern… https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-tax-liability-rules-put-agencies-on-the-hook-for-unpaid-paye.html https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-tax-liability-rules-put-agencies-on-the-hook-for-unpaid-paye.html Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business New joint and several liability rules allowed HMRC to recover umbrella company payroll shortfalls from recruitment agencies or end clients, changing the… https://uktech.org/a/technology-contract-market-weakens-as-ai-reshapes-specialist-demand.html https://uktech.org/a/technology-contract-market-weakens-as-ai-reshapes-specialist-demand.html Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IT SThree reported a 17 per cent fall in UK net fees and a 14 per cent decline across its global technology business, while clients redirected spending… https://uktech.org/a/post-office-s-104-million-ir35-bill-exposes-the-cost-of-misclassification.html https://uktech.org/a/post-office-s-104-million-ir35-bill-exposes-the-cost-of-misclassification.html Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 The government proposed paying £104.44 million directly to HMRC to settle the Post Office’s historic off payroll tax liability, creating a stark warning… https://uktech.org/a/outside-ir35-shortage-tops-contractor-fears-for-2026.html https://uktech.org/a/outside-ir35-shortage-tops-contractor-fears-for-2026.html Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 A survey of more than 600 independent professionals found that scarce outside IR35 work had become the biggest perceived threat to contractor businesses… https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-writes-to-864-000-traders-as-digital-tax-deadline-moves-inside-four-months.html https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-writes-to-864-000-traders-as-digital-tax-deadline-moves-inside-four-months.html Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business Long the reform that never quite arrived, Making Tax Digital hardened into a firm obligation in December 2025 as HMRC began writing to the people it will… https://uktech.org/a/budget-dividend-tax-increase-deals-another-blow-to-limited-company-contractors.html https://uktech.org/a/budget-dividend-tax-increase-deals-another-blow-to-limited-company-contractors.html Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business The Autumn Budget has raised the ordinary and upper dividend tax rates by two percentage points, directly reducing the income retained by contractors who… https://uktech.org/a/contract-market-cools-again-in-september-as-employers-freeze-hiring-before-the-budget.html https://uktech.org/a/contract-market-cools-again-in-september-as-employers-freeze-hiring-before-the-budget.html Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business Temporary billings fell faster than the month before and candidate numbers surged, as the latest KPMG and REC Report on Jobs found firms holding back… https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-company-tax-risk-moves-up-the-contractor-supply-chain.html https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-company-tax-risk-moves-up-the-contractor-supply-chain.html Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business HMRC has explained how recruitment agencies and end clients will become responsible for unpaid employment taxes when umbrella companies fail to operate… https://uktech.org/a/companies-house-announces-mandatory-identity-checks-for-contractor-company-directors.html https://uktech.org/a/companies-house-announces-mandatory-identity-checks-for-contractor-company-directors.html Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business Millions of company directors and controlling shareholders will have to verify their identities under a new Companies House regime that directly affects… https://uktech.org/a/draft-finance-bill-hands-hmrc-criminal-powers-over-tax-avoidance-promoters.html https://uktech.org/a/draft-finance-bill-hands-hmrc-criminal-powers-over-tax-avoidance-promoters.html Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business The government's Legislation Day package aims squarely at the marketed schemes that have left thousands of contractors nursing unexpected tax bills, but… https://uktech.org/a/government-technology-plan-signals-new-work-in-ai-cybersecurity-and-quantum-computing.html https://uktech.org/a/government-technology-plan-signals-new-work-in-ai-cybersecurity-and-quantum-computing.html Mon, 23 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IT A new ten year government strategy has placed artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced connectivity, semiconductors and quantum computing at the… https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-revises-cest-as-ir35-status-checks-face-renewed-scrutiny.html https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-revises-cest-as-ir35-status-checks-face-renewed-scrutiny.html Thu, 08 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 HMRC has updated its employment status tool for the first time in more than four years, but contractors and tax specialists say the changes improve… https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-contractors-bear-the-15-employer-nic-rise-as-the-new-tax-year-begins.html https://uktech.org/a/umbrella-contractors-bear-the-15-employer-nic-rise-as-the-new-tax-year-begins.html Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business The 2025-26 tax year opened with a dearer minimum wage and a steeper National Insurance bill, and for umbrella-employed IT contractors the two collided in… https://uktech.org/a/spring-statement-leaves-ir35-alone-as-hmrc-lines-up-a-1bn-compliance-push.html https://uktech.org/a/spring-statement-leaves-ir35-alone-as-hmrc-lines-up-a-1bn-compliance-push.html Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Political News Rachel Reeves ruled out fresh tax rises on 26 March, but a hardened HMRC enforcement drive and a lower Making Tax Digital threshold shifted the pressure… https://uktech.org/a/mps-tell-reeves-the-loan-charge-review-is-drawn-too-narrowly-to-reach-contractors.html https://uktech.org/a/mps-tell-reeves-the-loan-charge-review-is-drawn-too-narrowly-to-reach-contractors.html Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Political News The government's new inquiry examines only how contractors settle, not whether they should have to, and cross-party MPs want to know why. https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-logs-11-5-million-on-time-tax-returns-but-1-1-million-miss-the-31-january-deadline.html https://uktech.org/a/hmrc-logs-11-5-million-on-time-tax-returns-but-1-1-million-miss-the-31-january-deadline.html Fri, 31 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Business A record online filing rate could not stop about 1.1 million taxpayers, contractors among them, missing the 31 January deadline and the penalties that… https://uktech.org/a/national-insurance-bill-clears-the-commons-and-umbrella-contractors-will-absorb-the-rise.html https://uktech.org/a/national-insurance-bill-clears-the-commons-and-umbrella-contractors-will-absorb-the-rise.html Tue, 17 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Political News A tax framed as a levy on employers lands, in practice, on the take-home pay of contractors working through umbrellas or inside IR35. https://uktech.org/a/agencies-to-answer-for-umbrella-paye-from-april-2026-as-employment-rights-bill-reaches-committee.html https://uktech.org/a/agencies-to-answer-for-umbrella-paye-from-april-2026-as-employment-rights-bill-reaches-committee.html Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 The Budget shifted the tax risk of umbrella working onto recruitment agencies; days later, MPs began building the rights regime to match. https://uktech.org/a/reeves-lifts-employer-nic-to-15-and-shifts-umbrella-paye-liability-onto-agencies.html https://uktech.org/a/reeves-lifts-employer-nic-to-15-and-shifts-umbrella-paye-liability-onto-agencies.html Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Political News The Autumn Budget squeezed umbrella workers' take-home pay while redrawing who carries the tax risk in the contractor supply chain. https://uktech.org/a/supreme-court-referee-ruling-redraws-the-mutuality-and-control-tests-behind-ir35.html https://uktech.org/a/supreme-court-referee-ruling-redraws-the-mutuality-and-control-tests-behind-ir35.html Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk IR35 The unanimous PGMOL judgment confirmed that the two tests contractors most often rely on to prove self-employment can be cleared far more easily than the… https://uktech.org/a/starmer-s-painful-budget-warning-puts-contractor-dividends-and-cgt-in-the-frame.html https://uktech.org/a/starmer-s-painful-budget-warning-puts-contractor-dividends-and-cgt-in-the-frame.html Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:00:00 +0000 UKTECH Newsdesk Political News The Prime Minister's 27 August garden speech spared income tax, NI and VAT, and in doing so told company-based contractors exactly where the Budget axe… https://uktech.org/a/key-report-shows-uk-is-it-underachiever.html https://uktech.org/a/key-report-shows-uk-is-it-underachiever.html Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:24:00 +0000 Richard Powell Political News A Government IT report that was supposed to form the crux of last month's e-summit showed the UK lagging behind competitors. https://uktech.org/a/armed-ebay-user-wanted-to-talk-to-auction-winner.html https://uktech.org/a/armed-ebay-user-wanted-to-talk-to-auction-winner.html Mon, 03 May 2004 18:11:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT A Louisiana man who lost his eBay bid for a collection of uniforms to a fellow bidder loaded up his gun and drove to New York "to talk to him", a US court… https://uktech.org/a/western-work-will-return-if-east-is-overused.html https://uktech.org/a/western-work-will-return-if-east-is-overused.html Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:08:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Western demand for Indian IT workers shows little sign of easing. https://uktech.org/a/confidence-tricksters-catch-surfers-hook-line-and-sinker.html https://uktech.org/a/confidence-tricksters-catch-surfers-hook-line-and-sinker.html Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:00:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT More web users than ever before are succumbing to the exploits of online fraudsters who, as recent examples show, are using ever more devious methods to… https://uktech.org/a/why-arent-you-using-linux.html https://uktech.org/a/why-arent-you-using-linux.html Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:29:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT So you want to run a professional system and have heard about Linux being a free alternative to Microsoft's astronomically-priced software. https://uktech.org/a/phishers-net-60m-from-online-bankers.html https://uktech.org/a/phishers-net-60m-from-online-bankers.html Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:24:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT Online bankers in the UK are warned to be vigilant of e-fraudsters in a fresh police crackdown on the multi-million pound scam of "phishing". https://uktech.org/a/next-gen-contractors-to-beat-old-it.html https://uktech.org/a/next-gen-contractors-to-beat-old-it.html Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:11:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Contractors who re-invent themselves and accept equivalent rates of pay to their Indian outsourcing counterparts' will inherit the future of IT… https://uktech.org/a/whats-the-e-envoy-got-to-do-with-it.html https://uktech.org/a/whats-the-e-envoy-got-to-do-with-it.html Fri, 06 Feb 2004 18:01:00 +0000 Richard Powell Political News Full of good ideas and tall promises at their grandiose introductions, our appointed e-leaders pledge to fight the good fight to boost UK IT for all. https://uktech.org/a/how-it-is-shaping-up-in-2004.html https://uktech.org/a/how-it-is-shaping-up-in-2004.html Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:58:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business With rising demand for IT workers, renewed interest in ambitious projects and stable hardware sales, the beginning of 2004 looks to be the tail end of a… https://uktech.org/a/demand-for-it-contractors-ranks-second.html https://uktech.org/a/demand-for-it-contractors-ranks-second.html Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:55:00 +0000 Richard Powell Agents The UK recruitment industry's report on jobs shows IT contractor demand has risen to second out of eight sectors with demand for permanent IT workers well… https://uktech.org/a/offshore-outsourcing-is-turning-on-its-masters.html https://uktech.org/a/offshore-outsourcing-is-turning-on-its-masters.html Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:30:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business The shift of well-paid technology jobs to India, China and other low-cost offshore centres is beginning to cause Western companies public relations… https://uktech.org/a/counting-the-casualties-of-outsourcing-creep.html https://uktech.org/a/counting-the-casualties-of-outsourcing-creep.html Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:26:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Twenty-eight companies have outsourced more than 50,000 jobs serving UK customers to India over the past two years, with many more lining up to cut costs… https://uktech.org/a/making-big-brother-pay-id-card-opportunities.html https://uktech.org/a/making-big-brother-pay-id-card-opportunities.html Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:06:00 +0000 Richard Powell Political News The UK ID card scheme will include basic personal information, a digital photo and a "biometric" which can include facial recognition, iris scans and… https://uktech.org/a/email-abuse-increases-at-work.html https://uktech.org/a/email-abuse-increases-at-work.html Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:39:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT E-mail and Internet misuse at work has become a big headache for British employers, and UK companies are increasingly disciplining staff for accessing or… https://uktech.org/a/it-contractor-demand-rises-at-fastest-rate-since-1998.html https://uktech.org/a/it-contractor-demand-rises-at-fastest-rate-since-1998.html Sun, 09 Nov 2003 11:45:00 +0000 Richard Powell Agents This month's recruitment industry report from REC shows a leap in the rate of demand for IT contractors over October, with agencies crossing their fingers… https://uktech.org/a/it-managers-are-excluded-in-business.html https://uktech.org/a/it-managers-are-excluded-in-business.html Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:31:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business IT professionals are being denied senior level positions as their skills are seen as too niche by senior management to warrant boardroom status, new… https://uktech.org/a/open-source-of-opportunity.html https://uktech.org/a/open-source-of-opportunity.html Wed, 22 Oct 2003 10:19:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT Open source and its perceived threat to commercial off-the-shelf software is providing contractors who know where to look with a raft of opportunities. https://uktech.org/a/middle-eastern-appeal-for-resting-contractors.html https://uktech.org/a/middle-eastern-appeal-for-resting-contractors.html Tue, 07 Oct 2003 12:00:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Plying your trade all over the world is a key attraction of IT contracting and one pocket of the planet worth keeping an eye on is the Middle East. https://uktech.org/a/it-demand-strongest-since-1998-says-rec.html https://uktech.org/a/it-demand-strongest-since-1998-says-rec.html Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:39:00 +0000 Richard Powell Agents Demand for IT contractors was at its strongest since August 1998 last month, according to REC's most recent Report on Jobs. https://uktech.org/a/outsourcing-crisis-brewing-warns-uk-ceo.html https://uktech.org/a/outsourcing-crisis-brewing-warns-uk-ceo.html Thu, 11 Sep 2003 17:21:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Offshore development oversights made several years ago are now rising to the surface with potentially cataclysmic implications, one CEO warns. https://uktech.org/a/online-giants-go-to-war-against-id-thieves.html https://uktech.org/a/online-giants-go-to-war-against-id-thieves.html Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:28:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT Global businesses struggling to find an answer to the growing problem of ID theft mounted a united offensive against online fraudsters this week. https://uktech.org/a/irelands-bid-to-rescue-beaten-ict-brits.html https://uktech.org/a/irelands-bid-to-rescue-beaten-ict-brits.html Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:00:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business IT entrepreneurs whose companies have been raised to the ground by IR35, investigated for being independent and roped up by red tape are being targeted by… https://uktech.org/a/business-execs-call-it-shots.html https://uktech.org/a/business-execs-call-it-shots.html Sun, 06 Apr 2003 17:50:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Business chiefs are increasing their involvement in the IT decision-making process, confusing operations and crossing wires between departments… https://uktech.org/a/cambridge-is-uk-s-highest-paying-it-region.html https://uktech.org/a/cambridge-is-uk-s-highest-paying-it-region.html Tue, 18 Mar 2003 15:00:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business Cambridge has overtaken London to become the highest paying region in the UK for IT professionals, according to some analysts. https://uktech.org/a/it-students-get-corporate-backing.html https://uktech.org/a/it-students-get-corporate-backing.html Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:00:00 +0000 Richard Powell IT In what may become a growing trend this year, students at the University of Sussex are to receive an annual salary for developing IT systems for their… https://uktech.org/a/world-s-largest-it-gathering-hopes-to-spark-growth.html https://uktech.org/a/world-s-largest-it-gathering-hopes-to-spark-growth.html Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:44:00 +0000 Richard Powell Business About six and a half thousand businesses from 69 countries gathered at the world's largest IT exhibition in Germany recently, hoping to reinvigorate the…