FCSA Welcomes i4 Pay as an Accredited Member
Freelancer and Contractor Services Association (FCSA) welcomes i4 Pay Partners as a newly accredited member. i4 Pay is an umbrella company that was acquired by Payme in 2022. Payme is a long-standing FCSA member with a strong compliance track record. i4 Pay has a new management team in place and is committed to providing…
An Essential Guide For New Contractors
Businesses working in professional services rely on their reputation and hold lots of confidential and valuable information belonging to their clients and the projects they work on. This combination makes them the ideal target for cybercriminals who once inside a firm’s IT systems will use a number of different tactics to hold a firm to ransom.
FCSA Launches Contractor Payslip Review Initiative To Protect Contractors
Freelancer and Contractor Services Association aims to promote compliance and give contractors a voice in the industry.
HMRC names even more tax-avoidance schemesters
HMRC has again updated their ‘named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers’ list. All five of the latest batch, are businesses based in the Isle of Man who have avoided paying Income Tax and National Insurance through shady loan agreements. These companies are: Collect Consulting Limited Connections Limited First Step Consulting Limited Simply Consulting…
HMRC names another tax-avoidance schemester
HMRC shared another company yesterday (2nd March 2023), on their ‘named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers’ list. Hive Umbrella Ltd (HUL) were caught using a scheme that offers National Minimum Wage with ‘Ad-hoc Pay Advances’. This ‘advance’ represents an interest free debt (to HUL) which is offset against a future bonus when HUL decide to grant…
HMRC names 2 more tax-avoidance schemesters
HMRC shared another two companies yesterday (23rd February 2023), on their ‘named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers’ list. The companies named were: Canopaye Limited Integra Resourcing Limited The main theme of the schemes being used is the worker receives two payments, of which the second has not been taxed under PAYE,…
Holiday Pay and Harpur Trust – Where Are We Now?
Since the Supreme Court issued its judgment in the case of Harpur Trust v Brazel in July 2022, umbrella companies and employers generally have been grappling with the implications of the decision in respect of the calculation of holiday entitlement and holiday pay for employees who only work for part of the year. In our…
The Cybercriminal Ecosystem: Evolution and Extortion
Businesses working in professional services rely on their reputation and hold lots of confidential and valuable information belonging to their clients and the projects they work on. This combination makes them the ideal target for cybercriminals who once inside a firm’s IT systems will use a number of different tactics to hold a firm to ransom.
Auto-enrolment – are your affairs in order?
There can be little doubt that the introduction of auto-enrolment in 2012 has been a success, with workplace pension participation rate in the UK rising to 79% since then… that’s 22.6 million employees. But it appears possible that since the originally furore of publicity surrounding auto-enrolment, some employers may have taken their eye off the…
BISHOPSGATE, are the latest firm to join roster of FCSA Members following compliance assessment
Bishopsgate Employment Services Limited has been revealed as the latest company to be accepted into the Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA), providing umbrella PAYE and subcontractor CIS payroll solutions to organisations within the UK. Bishopsgate has been awarded accreditation for its umbrella employment and CIS/Self-Employment services, joining the membership body’s roster of over 70…