Freelancer Finance
Why freelancers should negotiate everything right now
Freelancers urged to negotiate better deals on everything from day rates to energy bills - before tax and interest rate hikes kick in. What freelan...
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Who's Hiring?
How contractor-managers build influence in the workplace
Despite being outsiders with no personal connections or networks, increasingly contractor-managers are doing a terrific job, according to a study b...
Brexit
What are the new "Freedoms" of Brexit?
New plans to "capitalise on the freedoms from Brexit" have been announced and one of the first places you might witness these changes are on a pint...
HMRC
ONS reveals £35bn in missing tax payments
Some wealth planners are expecting radical changes to the UK tax system in the next few years. The Office for National Statistics has published a r...
Tax
HMRC handed new powers to Clampdown on promoters of tax avoidance schemes
UMBRELLA COMPANY CONTRACTORS ICAEW warns that the current legislative phrasing provides HMRC with “a very wide-ranging power with extremely serious...
IR35
IR35 contributed to freelancers' 10% drop in day rates
Average quarterly earnings by UK freelancers fell 10% in the second quarter to £18,652, but on track to rise Freelancers cut their own day rates to...
Tax
NI tax hikes: Will umbrella contractors get the chop?
The UK's Federation of Small Business (FSB) has called the Conservative government's national insurance tax hike of 1.25% as “anti-small business” ...
Tech
Are umbrella companies really exploiting contractors?
Welcome back to the Freelancer's Lunch where we scan the net for topical, inspiring and career-impacting videos and podcasts talking about matters ...
News
Self-employed hardest hit by pandemic says ONS
The numbers don't lie as they say and it looks like the self-employed have been the hardest hit by the pandemic, according to the latest ONS figure...
COVID-19
Four factors that increase the risk of vaccinated people getting COVID
Authored by Vassilios Vassiliou, University of East Anglia; Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, University of East Anglia, and Ranu Baral, University of East An...
Freelancer Finance
Creditors free to go after distressed companies
Temporary measures brought in to support businesses from insolvency during the pandemic will be phased out from 1 October. Companies in financial d...
Tech
Amazon to Pay Full College Tuition for Its Front-Line Employees, transition staff into IT experts
Amazon’s more than 750,000 operations employees in the US are eligible for fully funded college tuition, including cost of classes, ...
Tax
Self-employed to be in higher demand thanks to health and social care levy says think tank. but at what price?
The NHS will be exempt from the new health and social care levy, government plans reveal, yet in a bizarre twist, care providers and their workers ...
Tax
"Short sighted attack": Freelancers and small businesses hit with Dividend tax, NI hike & health/social care levy
SPECIAL REPORT The government has announced a 1.25% Health and Social Care levy based on National Insurance contributions to tackle the social care...
IR35
Is your client ghosting your IR35 concerns?
Off-payroll labour and IR35 – six months on but uncertainty remains for end clients, recruiters and contractors More than half of the UK’s small an...