Tax
Fiscal drag to trap more freelancers into 40% tax bracket
By Daniel Fallows As the UK faces a cost-of-living crisis with inflation reaching its highest level for 30 years and the Bank of England ...
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Recruitment
Virtual events on the hunt for freelance tech talent
With demand for virtual events rising, a new report reveals more than half of marketing directors are facing a technical skills shortage, leading t...
News
National Insurance threshold hike: will it impact your state pension entitlement?
In April 2022 the Health and Social care levy comes into effect. This is a 1.25 percentage point increase on National Insurance contributions.The C...
News
NI threshold raised to £12,570 but some freelancers will be worse off next year says expert
NEWSFLASH From July, the National Insurance threshold will rise to £12,570 (it had been scheduled to rise from £9,568 to £9.880). 70% of people wil...
News
P&O Ferries: Will British agency staff ever trust the maritime sector again?
Crew Inspections Have Started On P&O Ferries As Airlines Step In To Recruit Redundant Staff The Maritime and Coastguard Agency will be carrying out...
HMRC
NICs hike: call for recruitment agencies and end clients to pay up for umbrella contractors
Recruitment agents and their end clients need to “step up to the plate and increase assignments fees to cover the cost to the worker”, according to...
IR35
PSCs and contractors can reclaim duplicated taxes
If a contractor’s personal service company (PSC) and the agency or client that has engaged them have paid tax on the value of the same contract, th...
The Tax Clinic
Help! I think my umbrella company is going bust
TAX CLINIC Welcome to The Freelance Informer's Tax Clinic where freelancers write in to get their tax questions and dilemmas addressed. This week a...
News
5% fuel duty cut welcome but the government is still making 80p per litre at the pumps
Fuel duty is a drop in the ocean, says personal finance expert. Others serving self-employed workers are asking for tougher, perhaps unpopular meas...
IR35
The Spring Statement: what should freelancers expect and what could surprise them?
Just when work opportunities and day rates started to soar towards pre-pandemic levels, freelancers could see those gains wiped out. The cost of li...
Freelancer Finance
Money-saving tips for freelancers
Freelancers do not have the luxury of always getting paid on time, this means that certain months they have to find ways to stretch their money. He...
News
Freelancers could see rate rises wiped out in 2022
The enormous impact of HMRC moving and freezing income holds in recent years has been revealed. Great Britain's Office for Budget Responsibility ch...
Tech
LimeWire makes comeback just as NFT interest fizzles
Google Trends has suggested that people are losing interest in non-fungible tokens (NFTS), yet that could be because they do not realise the possib...
News
Ukrainian Child Cancer Patients Brought To The UK In Urgent Flight To Receive Treatment On NHS
21 Ukrainian children with cancer have been brought to England to receive care through the NHS, the government has reported. The UK partnered with ...
Business & Finance
Freelancers in financial services could see their workload shrink
“If a portfolio manager teleported from 2020 into 2030, they would most likely not recognise their industry.” - Daniel Celeghin, Indefi Asset manag...