FreelanceUK News
Pipefitter 'only a worker due to parasitical brolly'
A real umbrella company would have thwarted a first of its kind bogus self-employment case.
Feb 26, 2018 | Freelancing News‘First step’ to give freelancers shared parental leave taken
MP puts freelance parents at the heart of a bill to block-share maternity allowance.
Feb 23, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers’ confidence wobble confirmed
Second study finds financial issues dragging on self-employed people’s optimism.Second study finds financial issues dragging on self-employed people’s optimism.
Feb 22, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancing body warns of two-year pay freeze
Profits squeeze predicted -- except for a small band of associate professionals.
Feb 21, 2018 | Freelancing NewsOnline tax appeals show higher success rate
Contesting the taxman’s claims digitally has the edge over doing it manually.
Feb 20, 2018 | Freelancing NewsMore staff than last year looking to ‘go it alone’
Freelancers will see new entrants in the self-employed sector -- albeit not yet.
Feb 19, 2018 | Freelancing News‘Victimised’ BBC presenter loses IR35 appeal
A ‘life-changing’ tax debt faces a media veteran who says she’s a scapegoat.
Feb 16, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancer confidence falls again as pressures rise
Feeling the squeeze amid uncertainty, freelancers feel up against it on multiple fronts.
Feb 15, 2018 | Freelancing NewsVow not to raise self-employed NICs divides business groups
‘Watershed moment’ or ‘wasted opportunity’? Freelancers’ supporters clash over a promise not to hike Class 4.
Feb 14, 2018 | Freelancing NewsCall to extend shared parental leave to freelancers
New parents who work for themselves need flexible childcare the most -- IPSE.
Feb 13, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers' Questions: Is my overtime rate being unfairly calculated?
‘Don’t get hung up on how your agent tots up time-and-a- half, or do and find another.’
Feb 12, 2018 | Money NewsMinisters agree to make vast changes to freelance work
Almost all the Taylor Review gets accepted, much to the approval of freelance groups.
Feb 9, 2018 | Freelancing NewsCreative industry 'sidelined' in Brexit talks
A worrying 80% of firms say Britain’s creative status is heading for a bruising.
Feb 9, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers to get future-proofed, clued up on money
Last in a Guardian series to equip freelancers financially, and for the long-haul.
Feb 9, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers' Questions: Is doing the US client's work there or here less taxing?
Staying in the UK to supply a New York firtm is less exciting, but more viable.
Feb 9, 2018 | Freelancing NewsTax returns prove too much for 746,000 self-assessors
Deadline, what deadline? Droves are still to settle up, and staring at £100 fines.
Feb 9, 2018 | Money NewsChange to IR35 triggers 30,000 slump in start-ups
April's off-payroll rules are directly blamed for the first fall in business set-ups in seven years.
Feb 9, 2018 | Freelancing News'Marketing consultant' handed 18-month jail term
Attempt to rob his firms of £140,000 returns real consequences for a fake marketer.
Feb 1, 2018 | Marketing/PR NewsLate payments tsar to get tough, 'if need be'
'Three strikes and you're out' approach mooted by the small business commissioner.
Jan 31, 2018 | Money NewsSmall business gets £100 tax penalty cancelled
Not being a 'flesh and blood human being' is why the taxman has come unstuck.
Jan 30, 2018 | Money NewsFewer self-employed declaring bankruptcy
A wave of personal insolvencies doesn’t appear to be engulfing freelancers.
Jan 29, 2018 | Freelancing NewsSeven-year-olds to have copyright lessons
Intellectual approach? Patent officials get down with the kids with an IP cartoon series.
Jan 26, 2018 | Freelancing NewsAlert over slowing self-employment growth
Stats showing 'going it alone' isn’t a growing business should ring alarm bells, says IPSE.
Jan 25, 2018 | Freelancing NewsTaxpayers fob off HMRC with alien accounts
Or at least they’re trying to, alongside claims about vertigo, rabbits and a Glasgow nightclub.
Jan 24, 2018 | Money NewsWhen you pay HMRC today, is there a delay?
Be aware, because you paying isn’t always the same as the taxman getting paid.
Jan 23, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers' Questions: Is an annual bonus an IR35 sign I can ignore?
'Thanks, but no thanks' might be the cleanest way out of a status muddying.
Jan 22, 2018 | IR35 NewsFancy a cuppa of creativity? Tea found to enrich ideas
Freelancers may need only half a cup to stir some innovation into their work.
Jan 19, 2018 | Freelancing NewsIPSE to award most talented freelancers
Freelance body wants to hear from the great, the young and the newly self-employed.
Jan 18, 2018 | Freelancing NewsRecord number of Britons eying freelancing
Timetabled or not, an unprecedented number of workers want to 'go it alone.'
Jan 17, 2018 | Freelancing NewsFreelancers' Questions: Which taxes do sole traders pay this month?
Expert previews what an accountant is going to suggest paying before January 31st.
Jan 16, 2018 | Money News