‘Contractors’ are individuals who work through their own limited company to provide their skills and services to other people or businesses. There are some complex rules for contractors to be aware of known as IR35/off-payroll working. These rules help ensure that those who effectively work as ...

Limited companies are cheap and easy to set up. But working through your own limited company is very different from just being an employee or self-employed or working through an agency or umbrella company. You therefore need to consider all the factors before deciding to set one up (or allowing one ...

Although there are problems with certain umbrella companies, others are compliant with the law. We outline how a compliant umbrella company should work in our factsheet for umbrella company workers. On this page, we are offering tips on how to find a safe, compliant umbrella company.

If you have been in disguised remuneration arrangements in the past, even if you did not really know or understand this, you may now be affected by the ‘loan charge’. 

Disguised remuneration (DR) is where you are paid a minimum wage element and a non-taxable element like a loan, grant, advance etc by an umbrella company. DR is not compliant with tax law, as all money paid to you in return for your services should be subject to PAYE income tax and National ...

An umbrella company is an employment business that takes on agency workers and other temporary workers as its own employees. They then have to deal with your pay, tax, and other legal obligations, just like any other employer.