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The Bulb Bailout: is it morally justifiable right now?
As state bailouts go, the failed gas and electricity provider Bulb Energy is the largest since the £45.4bn Royal Bank of Scotland bailout of 2008. ...
Opinion
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Education & EdTech
Freelancers: the "real life" Teachers that schools need
Many schools and colleges would like to increase their financial and career education efforts but they are hindered by a busy timetable, curriculum...
Opinion
No cushion for impact: how the Chancellor’s budget outlook ignored the imminent cost of living crisis
OPINION The Autumn Budget could be seen as no news is good news for the UK's 4.3 million freelancers and self-employed businesses. Thing is, the Ch...
Opinion
Autumn Budget: Will Rishi come through for Freelancers?
AUTUMN BUDGET SPECIAL Freelancers and small business owners around the UK share what they'd like to see Rishi Sunak announce in the Autumn Budget. ...
Opinion
Gigatisation: How 'big brother' apps and worker exploitation are giving freelancing a bad name
Thousands of drivers delivering for Amazon in the UK could be entitled to an average of £10,500 compensation for each year they have delivered for ...
IR35
Contractors get the chop
ContractorCalculator urges in a press release for agencies and end-clients to terminate contractor contracts before April When Freelance Informer r...
Business & Finance
'Startup Starmer': what he will do for entrepreneurs if he gets voted in as PM
Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer and The Institute of Directors (IoD) have something in common. They are both calling to put entrepreneur...
IR35
IR35 and the government's broken equalisation argument: "Employment law doesn't cover self-employed people because they are their own boss."
Could the Treasury's argument for private-sector IR35 tax equalisation scheme of freelancers be flawed? In some ways verging on the unjust? Will ce...
Startups
Solo self-employed numbers to rise in 2021 as will their 'economic inequality', says report
Many Freelance Informer readers are aware that self-employment has risen dramatically in the UK over the past decade. What many may not know is tha...
Tax
Sunak sets sights on self-employed and CGT tax hikes
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has expressed that the self-employed should be expected to pay higher taxes. In an effort to 'eq...
News
Which governments have valued freelancers and startups the most during the pandemic?
As previously reported, The Freelance Informer has highlighted the failure of the UK government to support all its self-employed taxpayers whether ...
News
Will Sunak welcome a UK Freelance Commissioner?
In a joint letter from IPSE, the Creative Industries Federation, Prospect and the Federation of Small Businesses, it has been argued that freelance...