The UK's flagship infrastructure project, High Speed 2 (HS2), is once again under intense scrutiny. This week, The Guardian revealed that the railway's timeline has been pushed back beyond 2033, and ...

Contractors who work through their own contracting limited company can potentially save a significant amount of money by becoming VAT registered. Umbrella contractors can also benefit to a lesser ...

The simple NI/PAYE calculator allows you to calculate PAYE/NI on the salary that you pay yourself out of your limited company. Our tax calculator uses tax information from the tax year 2014 / 2015 to ...

Contractors can claim travel expenses from their limited company, which can in turn enjoy corporation tax relief, when working on a client’s site. But this is only possible for as long as a contractor ...

Contractors have a statutory right to claim interest on late payments. The law says if customers pay late, they pay interest. Here’s how it works.

What is Value Added Tax? VAT stands for Value Added Tax. VAT is a tax on the purchase price of most goods and services sold in the UK and the Isle of Man. You can check items that are exempt of ...

Contractors don’t need employment rights, but situations do arise where a long-term relationship between a contractor and a client starts to resemble having a job.

Splitting dividends with a spouse to maximise contracting income used to be the norm, but the Arctic Systems case changed the rules.

Contractor rates vary hugely across the different contractor sectors and the wide range of contractors roles within them. If you add to that the fluctuations in market demand and variable availability ...

For most contractors whether or not they should charge VAT for overseas non-UK business clients is straightforward, explains Steve Crouch from Crunch.

Contractors who incur expenses when working for their clients can claim them back, but they need to be processed correctly depending on the nature of the expense and your VAT status.

Contractors suffering late payment for unpaid and overdue invoices must follow the correct debt recovery procedure and process to maximise their chances of successfully obtaining payment from clients ...