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The pandemic will preoccupy the chancellor at Autumn Budget 2021, making even the best thing he could do for UK contractors – regulate umbrella companies – an outside bet.

Disagreement about it from a range of IR35 and status experts who usually agree with each other is one of the few certainties emerging from the ‘PGMOL rehearing verdict.’

Contractors are being cautioned that the chancellor’s snap decision on Friday to cancel Budget 2019 does not dictate a delay, much less a cancellation, to April 2020’s IR35 rules.

A “domino effect” of large businesses refusing to engage limited company contractors due to IR35 changes from April 2020 has begun, experts told ContractorUK last night.

HMRC has finally, narrowly, defeated three BBC presenters on IR35 because they were akin to employees and owe £920,000, even though it was the broadcaster who forced them to use PSCs in the first place.

What’s the minimum and maximum dent to take-home pay for PSCs whose engagers have ‘cease and desist’ PSC models in place due to the incoming Off-Payroll Tax? Is there any way to actually earn more than when I was a PSC?

In the event that I decide to work inside IR35 from April 2020, or work through an umbrella company, or even join the client's payroll, what should my first consideration be with my limited company?

What's the best option as a limited company contractor from April 6th 2020 - work inside IR35, join the agency's payroll or, work via umbrella company?