by Pete Willcocks | Jun 22, 2026 | IR35
Why Businesses Are Moving Away From HMRC’s CEST Tool For several years, HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax tool, better known as CEST, has been the most recognisable IR35 assessment tool in the UK. Designed to help end clients, agencies and contractors decide...
by Pete Willcocks | Jun 15, 2026 | IR35
IR35: A Year-By-Year History Of The Main Changes IR35 has been one of the most significant and controversial pieces of tax legislation affecting UK contractors, recruitment agencies and end-clients. Introduced to tackle what HMRC viewed as ‘disguised employment’, the...
by Pete Willcocks | Jun 2, 2026 | Insurance, IR35
The April 2026 Threshold Change: Is Your Client Still in Charge of Your IR35 Status? The UK contracting landscape shifted significantly on 6 April 2026. While much of the recent regulatory focus has centered on umbrella company compliance and high-profile tribunal...
by Pete Willcocks | Apr 13, 2026 | IR35
What Start-Up Recruitment Agencies Need to Know About IR35 Compliance For new and early-stage recruitment agencies operating in the UK, understanding and managing IR35 compliance is critical. Since the off-payroll working reforms were introduced to the private sector...
by Pete Willcocks | Mar 2, 2026 | IR35
IR35: Why Scrapping the Legislation Isn’t the Silver Bullet Reform UK Thinks It Is Calls to scrap IR35 entirely have resurfaced, most recently from figures associated with Reform UK and its ‘Restore Britain’ messaging. The argument is simple and politically...
