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SPECIAL REPORT The government has announced a 1.25% Health and Social Care levy based on National Insurance contributions to tackle the social care...
Care workers are quitting to become Amazon warehouse pickers and for other better-paid jobs in a growing staffing crisis which operators now warn c...
Anyone who is self-employed in the UK should be preparing for increased national insurance rates, possibly at the same rate as employed taxpayers, ...
If you received a Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant and are struggling to find where to add this information on your tax return y...
The number of doctors taking early retirement from the NHS has more than trebled over the past 13 years, official figures show. Many retired becaus...
Xolo, an Estonian-born startup supporting freelancers and microbusinesses, has raised €3m to expand in 6 countries The Freelance Informer asks Xolo...
HMRC is changing its tax return penalty system. It's aiming to punish repeat offenders and be more lenient towards those who make the odd mistake, ...
In 2020, some 700,000 taxpayers left it to the very last day to file their self-assessment – with a nail-biting 26,562 taxpayers leaving it t...
At the heart of the government’s vision is a digitised tax system that "works closer to real-time" and the Treasury is looking to other countries f...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is considering increasing the amount of national insurance self-employed workers pay to be aligned or equalised with employe...
Self Assessment taxpayers have just days to pay any outstanding tax liabilities in full to avoid additional charges. But there is a solution to avo...
If you want to provide freelance services to clients based in the EU, or are a business that imports or exports products with the EU, there are som...