Umbrella Company Articles

editor | 3 December 2014
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For some time now – well, at least over the last few months – the UK’s burgeoning contracting and freelancing community have been receiving platitudes. ‘Britain is the freelance capital of Europe’, they say, with the ‘most mobile and resilient workforce out there’, they say.

editor | 28 November 2014
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The world seems to have gone mad with what seems to the UK to be a relatively new phenomenon, Black Friday.

Recruitment Live

Umbrella will be attending The Global Recruiters Recruitment Live Event today and tomorrow (25th and 26th November 2014).

Recruitment Live
4Dm1n | 12 November 2014
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From November 2014 HMRC are issuing 24 million personal tax summaries showing the tax you have paid and how it was spent. You should receive a tax summary automatically if you have paid any income tax in the prior tax year.

Umbrella-Company Limited, who operate under the trading name umbrella.co.uk, are currently recruiting a number of Business Development Managers (BDM’s) to work in either their new London Office in Aldersgate or their South Manchester Head Office on Manchester Road in Wilmslow.

UCATT (Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians) have come in for criticism for their blanket policy of targeting umbrella companies and not understanding that it is actually the change in legislation that means many construction workers can no longer be treated as self-employed or paid through the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).

All umbrella companies are equal

Umbrella.co.uk are pleased to announce that following a full review of our over-arching contract of employment and umbrella company expenses policies we have gained membership of All Umbrella Companies are Equal (AUCAE). As such we are considered to follow HMRC policies and relevant UK tax law.

Social workers operating through their own limited companies may fall under the HMRC spotlight as they look at sectors they consider to fall foul of IR35.

HMRC has issued guidance on the quarterly reporting requirements that will be required to be sent to HMRC for employment intermediaries, such as recruitment agencies, from 6th July 2015. The first report must be sent to HMRC by 5th August 2015 and will cover the 3 months from 6th April 2015 to 5th July 2015.

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