Contractor management with IR35 and off-payroll discipline.
Engage PSCs, consultancies, and freelancers across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland with documentation that stands up to HMRC and client audits.
The UK taxes and regulates labour through PAYE, IR35, CIS, and employment tribunals. Contractor management helps you pay genuine businesses and individuals compliantly while retaining evidence of status determinations and payment chains.
Tech scaleups, banks, consultancies, and project teams hiring PSC contractors in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, and remotely across the UK.
Since 2021, medium and large private sector clients generally determine whether IR35 applies. If “inside IR35”, tax and NICs are operated through PAYE often via your payroll, the agency, or an umbrella.
Jackson & Frank helps you document reasonable care in determinations and align payments with the outcome.
Verify Companies House details, VAT numbers, insurance, and bank proof before first payment.
Store SDS copies, contracts, and rate changes for HMRC enquiries.
Many UK contractors are paid through FCSA-accredited umbrellas or agency PAYE. Due diligence on fee transparency and employment rights messaging reduces reputational risk.
We support governance reviews alongside your legal team.
Dual approval, invoice matching, and CIS deduction tracking where you are the contractor.
Export payment batches for accounting and audit.
HMRC enquiry activity and client audits increasingly test IR35 and employment status. Ad hoc invoicing without determinations is a weak defence.
A managed programme gives HR, legal, and finance a single playbook and a path to EOR employment when contractors become permanent headcount.
From SDS to payment file.
KYC, PSC company checks, insurance certificates, and compliant MSAs.
Help produce and retain Status Determination Statements where you are the deemed employer.
SOWs, rate cards, and change control aligned with UK market practice.
Approve PSC invoices and payment runs in GBP with audit trail.
Watch for long engagements that drift inside IR35 or employment law.
Onboard as employees with PAYE, NI, and pension auto-enrolment.
UK contracting is heavily regulated plan accordingly.
Tax, NIC, and tribunal risk in one view.
Medium and large organisations must assess whether rules apply and operate PAYE if the engagement is deemed employment.
Some agency workers are subject to PAYE regardless of PSC structure scope each supply chain.
Contract labels do not defeat employment status claims in tribunals substance matters.
Need PAYE employees in the UK?
Learn more about UK EORCommon questions about contractor management in the United Kingdom.
IR35 (off-payroll working) can make a client or fee-payer responsible for PAYE if a contractor would be deemed an employee for tax purposes. For medium and large clients, the client usually determines status. We help document assessments and structure engagements to reduce risk.