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The government’s latest initiative to appoint a small business commissioner to help with payment terms and disputes between small businesses and their larger customers is to be welcomed, says the [...]

Attendees in a packed room at the Recruitment EXPO in Birmingham gave a 100% yes in response to the perennial question, “Are standards important to the recruitment industry?”. Read more... We [...]

Commenting on an article in Recruiter magazine on 28th July (“Recruitment bodies welcome new Small Business Czar”), Adrian Marlowe, Chairman of the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) [...]

Responding to news that the HMRC ‘Business Entity Tests’ for the tax rules known as IR35 are to be scrapped, Theresa Mimnagh, of the compliance and recruitment law specialist Lawspeed, said “the [...]

HMRC has published a VAT bulletin on the ruling of the First Tier Tax Tribunal in the matter of Reed Employment Limited v HMRC. The bulletin outlines the Revenue’s position in the light of the [...]

“Could HMRC proposals affect the flexible workforce?” was the topic of the debate at a meeting held by the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) on 23rd September in London, and on a [...]

Responding to the consultation published by HMRC on 10th December called “Onshore Employment Intermediaries - False Self Employment”, the Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) voices [...]

Referring to the article published yesterday (the 28th November 2013) by the Sun newspaper which accuses agencies of illegally charging workers and claiming that a loophole is being exploited, [...]

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has received a response from the Department for Education (DfE) clarifying the department’s interpretation of R.3(2) of the Agency Workers [...]

The ARC has welcomed the latest BIS consultation which seeks to give SMEs further means of addressing ‘Grossly Unfair Terms’. To this end representative bodies would be given the power to [...]