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Multiple Clients and Blanket Determinations: Ask Andy Answers

Ever wondered if changing your company status will help avoid the IR35 reforms? Or perhaps you’re wondering if it’s beneficial…

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Can the self-employed file for unemployment benefits?

While work has been picking up, COVID-19 is still making the contractor market very competitive, especially when you factor in…

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Overseas contracts and being inside IR35: Ask Andy Answers

With just over five months until the launch of the IR35 private sector reforms, many contractors, recruiters and businesses have…

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A Guide To Record-Keeping And Expenses For Self-Employed Sole Traders

Whether you’re new or not to self-employment, record-keeping might sound like hard work. And while that may be true, it does come with…

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What to look for in an insurance renewal

If your business insurance is coming up for renewal, it’s easy to either be complacent or to panic. Complacency often results in…

Contractor Guides

How to increase word-of-mouth recommendations

Despite everything, work for many contractors is starting to pick up. Many clients who had been waiting to see if COVID would “blow over” have…

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Brexit, PSC Contracts and IR35 Delays: Ask Andy Answers

With the 2021 IR35 reforms edging ever closer, now is the time to get yourself prepared, whether you’re a contractor,…

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End client contracts, non-UK agencies & clauses to check: Ask Andy Answers

If you have an IR35 question burning a hole in your head (and who doesn’t?) then now is the perfect…

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Keep your contractors outside IR35 with these off-payroll expert tips

The self-employed contribute around £305 billion a year to the UK economy and with businesses hard hit by COVID, the…

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How to show your IR35 status

As you must know by now – and if you don’t then you really, really need to read this blog – the…