Ahead of Rachel Reeves' Autumn Budget 2025 on 26 November, ContractorUK brings together analysis and reaction from across the contracting sector.

Rachel Reeves ‘builds on the choices’ Labour has made, with a ‘budget for fair taxes, strong public services, and a stable economy.’ Madame Deputy Speaker. It is my understanding that the Office for ...

The taxman has 14 million reasons to feel like he’s come out on top, even if it is wooden dollars which changed hands four ...

The Intermediaries legislation of 2000 has made life ‘very, very difficult’ for contractors, so it too would be abolished with the OPW rules — Reform UK.

The “interesting” case of the nurse who won at the ET, but who’s now lost at the EAT, contains some key admissions for Labour, as well.

As the government continues to flatter IR35, the data needed to truly gauge the full, detrimental impact of the HMRC rules is conveniently not being disclosed.

A Court of Appeal judgment showing an "October 2025" publication date, on a case that centred on whether Travel & Subsistence (T&S) expenses could be deducted for tax purposes, might make umbrella ...

A few good reasons why the 'token gesture' should avoid the axe probably need offsetting against alignment and adjustment risks to dividends on Nov 26th. With the Autumn Budget 2025 on the horizon, ...

Self-employment isn't a tax dodge — it's a benefits gap. Fixing it with 'parity' would cost the Treasury more than it'd raise. The latest declaration comes from the Resolution Foundation (RF). And ...

Limited companies face an “aggressive” increase in fees from Companies House, or their accountant -- or both, due to two tranches of changes by the government agency. The first tranche concerns ...