Foreign Office puts 438 of 500 contractor roles inside IR35 after review
The Foreign Office IR35 case enters a second year, with the department still unable to say what it owes HMRC after hundreds of wrong assessments.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
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The Foreign Office IR35 case enters a second year, with the department still unable to say what it owes HMRC after hundreds of wrong assessments.
The British Business Bank's £210m South East Investment Fund, launched on 9 September, offers loans and equity to smaller firms from Kent to Oxfordshire.
Make UK and Bishop Fleming survey finds inheritance tax changes and energy costs are prompting family-owned manufacturers to consider selling up.
B&Q, Five Guys, Serco and Whitbread are among 658 employers named by the government for minimum wage underpayments, repaying £4m to 27,000 workers.
New Companies House filings show Harvey Nichols and Company went into administration owing £270.5 million to unsecured creditors, and administrators FTI Consulting expect no more than…
The former Match of the Day presenter, one of more than 120 signatories to an open letter asking Andy Burnham for a 2 per cent wealth…
Thousands of people and employers with outstanding Loan Charge liabilities are being invited to settle under the new Loan Charge Settlement Scheme, which HMRC says will…
David Spencer-Percival, the recruitment entrepreneur who sold his home and classic car collection to launch Spencer Ogden, is fighting a bankruptcy petition in the High Court…
Shop price inflation rose to 1.5 per cent in August, the fastest rate in more than two years, as higher energy and commodity costs fed through…
The first Victoria Beckham profit since the label launched in 2008 caps five consecutive years of double-digit growth, with revenue up 15 per cent to £129.8…
UK borrowing costs are close to their highest level in almost three decades, with newly issued government debt yielding an average of 3.8 per cent this…
The man appointed by Andy Burnham to lead the business rates review for pubs and hotels has previously called for the tax to be cut by…
UK business confidence has climbed to 63 per cent following the changes in Government, Barclays' Q2 Business Prosperity Index shows, with most firms planning to raise…
![New buy-to-let company formations are on course to fall for the first time since 2008. Hamptons found 41,483 were set up in the first eight months of the year, against 44,802 a year earlier. Aneisha Beveridge, its head of research, said the incorporation boom was driven by landlords moving properties they already owned into limited companies after the tax changes that began in 2016, and that the trend is reaching its tail end. She added that the Treasury's stamp duty income from those transfers, worth about £1.2bn a year, was likely to start falling. What does a slowdown in landlord incorporations mean for rental supply in your area? Read the full story: [ARTICLE URL] #BuyToLet #Property #Tax](https://bmmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/shutterstock_390007225-420x236.jpg)
