First Recruitment Group Blog

I’ve been lucky enough to travel out to India to see the work the Kamla Foundation do first hand, along with another of our Directors Steve Farthing. This blog is a snapshot of our adventure.

Blog from First Recruitment CEO on the planned changes to legislation regarding T&S tax relief for contractors that fail the SDC test, taking effect on 6th April this year.

It was recently leaked that ministers were planning to make changes to the IR35 legislation in the Autumn statement, making employers or intermediaries responsible and therefore liable for the contractors they engage with. Click here to read more.

HMRC issued a consultation document on 17 July 2015 to explore options for tightening up IR35*, the intermediary’s legislation that aims to tackle tax avoidance through disguised employment. Click here to read more.

Constantly threatened by dreaded IR35 status checks, it seems that the road to self-employed status has become a very complicated one, which is why I decided to write this blog. Click here to read more

The IR35 legislation was introduced by the Government to counter what HMRC class as disguised employment, but is now inadvertently affecting thousands of consultants, engineers, designers and white collar contractors from providing their services as self-employed workers. Click here to read more.

If you are a job hunter and don’t have a LinkedIn profile, chances are you’re already 5 steps behind the competition. Click here to read more