Like many contractors, Painting and Decorating company Bagnalls often encounters challenges posed by working near the public. Commercial businesses and public institutions need to be able to run successfully without any impediments, so it i...
‘Subbie bashing’ is where larger firms financially bully smaller subcontractors they’re working with. Often, the larger firms know they can get away with it because the smaller subcontractors do not have the resources to fight back. A...
Contracting, particularly in the construction industry, isn’t stereotypically seen as a career that a lot of women pursue. But why is this? As quite a physical job, construction and labouring has always been seen as a ‘man’s worldâ€...
With nearly 5million people working for themselves in the UK, self-employment is now a vitally important sector of the labour market. Certainly, if the rapid growth of independent working is anything to go by, this way of working is incre...
A CASE OF DISPUTED late filing penalties saw the First Tier Tribunal (FTT) uphold an appeal by an employee who claimed that HMRC should have known his address as they had previously been in correspondence with him. In Oliver ...
If you are not fully compliant HMRC can reclassify your subcontractors as employees and go back to earlier years and calculate the PAYE tax and National Insurance you should have deducted and charge interest and penalties – even if you ...
Court cases and high solicitor fees make legal expenses insurance a precaution worth taking for tradespeople. No self-employed tradesperson sets out in business thinking they will end up in court to defend their interests. But it happe...
Assessing the potential impact of Brexit for self-employed tradesmen and tradeswomen. The construction industry is in the front line of sectors directly affected by the mounting uncertainty over Brexit. And as an industry with...
According to new research by bathroom hardware provider Sanctuary Bathrooms. The new ranking analysed the average wages of plumber...
In the UK, every 23 minutes a van is broken into and tools are stolen from it, costing tradespeople £100m a year in total. Let that sink in for a moment. Every tradesman and tradeswoman hopes and probably thinks it won’t ever happen...
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) have written to HMRC in respect of the department’s guidance re the Employment Intermediaries Reporting Rules (EIRR) and Agency Worker legislation (s.44, ITEPA 2003), in particular whether or n...
The recent Employment Tribunal ruling in the Hermes Parcelnet Ltd (Hermes) case may have provided HMRC with another strand of argument when disproving a right of substitution. A total of 65 couriers brought successful claims against He...
After failing to persuade the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal, Charlie Mullins, founder of Pimlico Plumbers Ltd, also failed in his company’s appeal to convince the Supreme Court that Gary Smith, an ex-Pimlico self-employed operative, ...
Q. Does the plumber's recent workers' rights battle against Pimlico Plumbers undermine IR35 for contractors? The Supreme Court ruled that despite being self-employed, he was able to insist on workers rights. Could this open the floodgates f...
A recent debate in House of Commons shows that there are far bigger problems in terms of tax avoidance than personal service companies. It has always been a bone of contention with IR35 that the legislation targets the smallest businesses...
In April 2016, legislation was introduced to counter the practice of opening and closing companies at regular intervals and to prevent shareholders of close companies from escaping an Income Tax charge on the final distribution of company...
