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What would you do with one "free day" each week?
A UK 4-day week study is showing lasting positive effects on worker productivity and wellbeing. How are people spending their "free day" and what i...
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Self-employed mortgages and financial products
How to budget for higher mortgage rates when you're a freelancer
How will interest rate rises impact my monthly mortgage payments? This is what all home-owning or soon-to-be homeowners should be asking themselves...
Self-employed mortgages and financial products
Self-employed and buying a newbuild? Here’s how to avoid “dodgy” developer tactics
Buying a property is probably one if not the, largest financial commitment you will make. So, what should you do if you are in the market to buy a ...
Freelancer Finance
Crucial money tips for freelancers with kids
SPECIAL REPORT HL Savings & Resilience Barometer July 2022 showed just how much parents are struggling to make ends meet. Where can they get a brea...
Recruitment
What recruiters want Truss to do next
Liz Truss has won the Conservative leadership race and the top job as Prime Minister, so what do recruiters want from the new PM and is it in the i...
News
In Truss we Trust? What the self-employed need from the new PM and her Cabinet
For those freelancers out there that were worried about Rishi Sunak being offered a role in new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s cabinet and leaving the ...
IR35
Government response to PAC’s IR35 report is “legally incorrect” “predictable” and loaded with “ivory tower thinking” say IR35 experts
The Government has responded to the Public Account Committee’s report on the lessons learned from implementing IR35 that was published in May 2022,...
News
Freelancers aren’t who you think finds new report
Original reporting by Toby McInnis For the majority of us, the word “freelancer” evokes an image of a young person tapping away on their laptop in ...
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Will a bonus or Cost of Living pay-out put freelancers in hot water with HMRC?
Some contractor recruitment agencies, such as Andrew Construction Recruitment (ACR), believe self-employed contractors deserve a Cost of Living pay...
The Tax Clinic
Should I make my spouse a director of my limited company?
TAX CLINIC By Graham Webber Director of Tax at WTT Consultancy There are no reasons why any individual, including a spouse, cannot be a direct...
Cost of Living
Cost of living crisis: what are your rights if your landlord wants to increase your rent?
By Tom Simcock, University of Huddersfield via The Conversation A lack of affordable housing and growing demand for rental properties has sent the ...
Recruitment
How to pitch to SMEs and solve their challenges
A poll of 500 SME decision-makers, carried out by OnePoll on behalf of NatWest’s Mentor service, highlights the most pressing HR issues affecting S...
Career tips
New book helps you not make stupid mistakes
This new book could help you avoid silly mistakes when you talk and write You've penned a pitch to a prospective client. You've hit the send button...
News
Freelancers have this awesome trait, says McKinsey
Isn't it about time governments on both sides of the Atlantic started recognising and celebrating freelancers, who according to a McKinsey study, h...
Opinion
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....