How The Budget Could Affect The Contractor

With this year’s budget set to take place on Wednesday 24th March, those within the contractor marketplace are forecasting what Alistair Darling will set out in the budget that will affect contractors working through umbrella companies and also their own limited company.
Contractor UK believes ‘contractors should emerge relatively unscathed from the chancellor’s Budget on Wednesday, [...]

PBR Not As Gloomy For Contractors As Predicted

Chancellor Alistair Darling yesterday unveiled his second pre-Budget report of this economic downturn.  Across the contracting industry this week, there were gloomy predictions of what the report would announce but as Contract Eye discusses, the Pre Budget Report really wasn’t the disaster many thought it would be.
 Although there was no promise to repeal IR35 as [...]

New Restrictions On Limited Company Names

Companies House, which deals with the registration of businesses, has added 42 new words to a list of company names that are restricted, for having the potential to mislead or sound too official.
Among the words whose commercial use will now require permission, in order to stop businesses feigning some type of authority, are ‘adjudicator,’ ‘bank,’ [...]