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Salary skimming: whose money is actually being deducted?
This article has been updated. OPINION While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will...
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Will Sunak's policies make his Stanford Alumni proud?
If Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to make good on his “Startup Treasury Mentality” he’ll need to advise his Chancellor to help pass policies that...
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HMRC research into tax avoidance schemes branded “a waste of time”
OPINION By Fred Dures, PayePass HMRC’s commissioned research into disguised remuneration schemes has been described as a “waste of t...
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Freezing taxes and benefits: why it puts more money in the Treasury's coffers
OPINION If you have come across an article or news clip on the radio or television today about why tax freezes outlined in last month's mini-budget...
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The rise of the silver freelancer
For those who have been freelancing or self-employed for a decade (or two), working any other way, even in retirement years, is almost unthinkable....
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Chaplin on PM resignation: UK economy's greatest asset is its highly skilled freelance workforce, but Tory party has been anti-business for far too long
OPINION By Dave Chaplin, CEO, IR35 Shield Commenting on the Prime Minister’s resignation, Dave Chaplin, CEO of tax compliance firm IR35 Shield offe...
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Freelancing is the ideal soft landing for retirement
Don't retire. Go freelance. This societal mindset could radically improve the world's workplace talent pool and financial viability going into full...
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The political party most likely to win the hearts of voters if the general election was held tomorrow
OPINION From the 88 constituencies which the Conservatives either (a) won from Labour in 2019, or (b) currently hold with a majority of less than 1...
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Partygate: did its ramifications influence revisions to the Ministerial Code?
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written to Lord Geidt this week, the Conservative Party’s ethics adviser and former Private Secretary to the Sover...
IR35
A world without freelancers is a world without free thinkers
If IR35 was a tax mechanism used in centuries past, I dare say the CEST "tool" we are presented with today, would have been a befuddling series of ...
Opinion
How is HMRC’s “Don’t’ Get Caught Out” campaign “helping” contractors?
Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.Nelson Mandela Many of you may recall that back in April HMRC named and shamed tax avoidanc...
IR35
Could the political party that gives a damn about freelancers and their contribution to the economy please stand up?
OPINION When a nation’s employment options and freelancer freedoms are taken away from them, everyone suffers, including The Treasury and oddly eno...