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From April 2026, the new Joint and Several Liability rules come into play. We’ve teamed up with Lucy Smith at Clarity Umbrella to put together a straightforward guide on what’s changing - and what it’s likely to mean in real life.

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Labour's new anti-late payment package ‘a contractor confidence boost’.

Under JSL, agencies are ‘umbrella companies’ if no brollies are present.

Official or not, a delay to an arduous filing change for micro and small company directors is a U-turn we can all get behind.

Recruitment agencies liable for PAYE, Chapter 11 rules from April and more… The draft rules to tackle umbrella companies have been unveiled.

A ‘big shift’ on supply chain accountability and non-compliance risk in the UK contractor sector is imminent. . #CONTRACTING

I’ve just read that the government is creating a taskforce to overhaul recruitment processes in the UK and develop a national strategy to make hiring faster and simpler. #RECRUITMENT.#CONTRACTING.

There’s lots going on at the moment, behind the scenes, that affects the contractor and umbrella company marketplaces, but this calm before a potential legislative storm won’t last long, writes Roger Sinclair, legal consultant at contractor law firm Egos.

There’s quite a bit of talk about potential tax changes that could affect contractors at next quarter’s Autumn Budget 2025. #CONTRACTING.#AUTUMNBUDGET.

For any contractor who is still chasing an unpaid invoice after TWO YEARS, I must be the bearer of bad news because to be blunt, if your client was going to pay THEY WOULD ALREADY HAVE PAID BY NOW, writes Adam Home, managing director of Safe Collections .

The taxman telling Boox and Churchill Knight contractors under MSC investigation that he now requires “actual figures…to revise…calculations of what you owe,” isn’t going down well, writes former tax inspector Carolyn Walsh, director of Oblako Ltd.

A legislative tug of war is poised to reshape the UK recruitment landscape, whereby contractor recruitment agencies will be placed at the centre of two competing regulatory forces, writes Paul Bygraves, a director of Sapphire . @SapphireAcc.#CONTRACTING.

Tax avoidance scheme promoters appear to be putting as much thought into their names as their arrangements to lure contractors. . #CONTRACTING.#TAXAVOIDANCE

The contractor industry has been reacting to the informal announcement by the government that it intends to include Joint and Several Liability (JSL) in the April 2026 umbrella company tax legislation.

I have been invited to provide some legal input into this situation -- I will simplify it as “Can I invoice before the start of a contract?” writes Roger Sinclar, legal consultant at egos. . #CONTRACTING.#LEGAL

At the time of writing, there has been no formal announcement by any government department in respect of Joint and Several Liability (JSL) in the April 2026 umbrella company tax legislation.

At the time of writing, there has been no formal announcement by any government department in respect of JSL in the April 2026 umbrella company tax legislation, writes Alex Fraser, chief operating officer at Compass Contracting & Employment. . #JSL