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Temp and agency workers: are you taking advantage of your “equal treatment” rights?
From the day you start working as a temp or agency worker, you have a handful of workers' employment rights. But did you know that once you work in the same job for 12 weeks (3 months) you have the same rights as someone employed directly?…
Naming and shaming tax avoidance schemes won’t stop loan charge suicides
Michelle Mone’s husband linked to three tax avoidance schemes
Loan Charge “tragedy” linked to tenth suicide
UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps' decision to not implement a single labour market enforcement agency (as…
Government shelves plans to regulate umbrella industry leaving workers exposed to skimming, tax…
The government has shelved plans to introduce the Single Enforcement Body (SEB) for employment rights, which included a strategy to regulate the umbrella industry. The SEB was to be introduced to protect workers’ rights and…
Contractors: tax specialist says avoid offshore umbrella PAYE schemes
Not all umbrella company PAYE schemes are what they seem says contractor tax specialist
In a recent LinkedIn post, Graham Webber Director of Tax at WTT Consulting, which is a specialist in contractor tax, highlighted that contractor tax…
Salary skimming: whose money is actually being deducted?
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OPINION
While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will be interested to know that "salary skimming" has no definition in the FCSA's codes of…
Liquid Friday CEO responds to ‘skimming’ accusations
On the back of fresh allegations that another of the UK’s leading umbrella companies has been ‘skimming’ millions from contractors’ payslips – reportedly amounting to a 1.5% deduction from contractors’ pay – umbrella payroll…
“You’ve been skimmed” – the last thing an umbrella contractor wants to hear
The Freelance Informer asks Contractor Voice's Jacob Bellas about the latest report of alleged umbrella company payslip skimming. What has his audit and investigation revealed?
Contractor Voice, an advocacy news and campaign site for…
How can we put an end to unscrupulous umbrella companies?
The Freelance Informer asks Fred Dures of PayePass how funding raised by taxpayers to prevent the proliferation of tax avoidance schemes can be justified at a time when so many families are struggling to make ends meet
Dures offers his…
Legal claims could be on the cards following Harpur Trust v Brazel decision
Osborne Clarke’s Workforce Solutions team explains the wider impacts on the UK workforce and those that serve it following the Supreme Court decision in Harpur Trust v Brazel
'Part-year workers' will be entitled to 5.6 weeks paid…
Exchequer v. HMRC: will it mean more bills for contractors?
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Judges have ruled that umbrella provider Exchequer Solutions owes HMRC £11m in unpaid tax, but will contractors end up picking up the tax tab? We ask the experts to see what they think and their tips to…