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. ...
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Education & EdTech
Ditch the degree: 46% of graduates say start a business instead. But do business owners agree?
A new study has explored whether students, past and present, consider a degree to hold the prestige it once did in business - or whether entreprene...
Who's Hiring?
A "bleak" Over 50s middle management job market urging candidates to go freelance or become PAYE contractors
Recruitment specialists respond to the latest ONS Labour Market Statistics, which showed a record number of job vacancies (1,102,000) from July to ...
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 ...
Business & Finance
Freelancers face £25 billion tax admin burden
The Federation of Small Businesses is calling on the Government to protect small businesses from unfair profit-seeking behaviour from Make Tax Digi...
News
River Cottage chef’s TV production company sold off after going bust. But Have the freelancers been paid and will they have a future with the new owners?
Insolvency documents show that the directors of KEO Films, including co-founder River Cottage chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, paid themselves £4m...
Lifestyle
Just how far would you commute for the ideal property?
92% of hybrid workers and PAYE contractors are willing to commute further to get their desired property or location. Many freelancers though took t...
Freelancer Lifestyle & Tales
'Not On Amazon' founder Jamie Rackham: could he be the E-commerce Robin Hood for creatives and artists?
Have you heard of NOT ON AMAZON? It's a Facebook e-commerce community for small independent retailers and artisans. It's grown faster than ever ove...
Tech
A virtual camera and video app that alters your onscreen likeness, outfit and environment (even when you are still in your pyjamas)
FREELANCER'S LUNCH Bad hair day? Still in your pyjamas when a client wants to do a video call? Not to worry, a virtual camera app claims it can fix...
News
Nobel Peace prize awarded to brave freelance journalists that built Media startups to safeguard freedom of expression
Freelance journalists turned media company founders were awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for their bravery in reporting and company foundations ...
News
More tax hikes to come?
Under current government spending plans, council tax increases of 3.6% per year will be needed for the next three years just to ensure council...
News
Nepotism at heart of Cambridge freelance supervisor exploitation, says student union report
A freedom of information (FoI) request by the Cambridge University and College Union (CUCU) branch to Pembroke College has found that the universit...
IR35
The PGMOL case: how it could give HMRC greater powers to take the "freedom" out of freelance
FREELANCER'S LUNCH The long-awaited Court of Appeal decision in the football referees case has been handed down and it is significant, with implica...
Tax
Freelancers may have to pay back 'COVID' tax benefits
SEISS, child benefit and marriage allowance are some of the tax benefits sole traders and limited company directors may have to pay back if their i...
Tech
Love pets? Love tech? Join a pet startup community
If you are interested in launching or investing in a pet startup, you may want to join the 300 strong Unleashed EMENA pet startup community. You ca...