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In this secret contractor blog, an anonymous IPSE member shares their verdict on how much more you should charge for working inside IR35.

With the majority of avoidance schemes still being styled as umbrella services, IPSE’s Joshua Toovey urges government to get moving on regulation of umbrellas.

Proposals for an umbrella company due diligence regime are in a “precarious position” unless government shows “urgency” to develop them, warns IPSE.

With an update from government due in two weeks, IPSE's Joshua Toovey recaps what contractors should look out for in these proposals to regulate the umbrella comp...

In part 1 of my story, I explained how I found myself in the predicament of taking my first inside IR35 engagement.

New research from IPSE has found that despite over a third (34%) of self-employed workers operating through an umbrella company, over 3 in 5 (61%) umbrella compan...

Fred Hicks explores how plans to regulate umbrella companies could see supply chains abandon them altogether, and what it means for contractors.

Following the release of IPSE's inaugural IR35 Spotlight, Fred Hicks discusses the changing face of the off-payroll reforms' flaws and the need for HMRC to robust...

After waiting almost one and a half years for the government to publish their plans on regulation of the umbrella company market, we finally got a 58-page consult...

With contractors increasingly operating via umbrella companies since the 2017 and 2021 IR35 changes, holiday pay arrangements have come under greater scrutiny by ...

Having been a contractor for over a decade, the off-payroll (IR35) legislation in 2017 for the public sector and later for the private sector led to an avalanche ...

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down its judgement in Harpur Trust v Brazel.

While the case hasn’t been widely reported in the media, the Supreme C...