September 2021

Freelancers urged to negotiate better deals on everything from day rates to energy bills - before tax and interest rate hikes kick in. What freelancers should negotiate now: Mortgage rates and whether it wll pay off staying or…

Despite being outsiders with no personal connections or networks, increasingly contractor-managers are doing a terrific job, according to a study by the Center for Human Resources at Wharton School. When Wharton management…

New plans to "capitalise on the freedoms from Brexit" have been announced and one of the first places you might witness these changes are on a pint glass down the pub. Some tweeters have had a field day with the news. Regulatory…

Some wealth planners are expecting radical changes to the UK tax system in the next few years. The Office for National Statistics has published a report, 'Measuring tax gaps', noting that the tax gap amounted to £35bn, or 5.3% in the…

UMBRELLA COMPANY CONTRACTORS ICAEW warns that the current legislative phrasing provides HMRC with “a very wide-ranging power with extremely serious consequences.” The government is giving the nation's tax authority, the HMRC, more…

Average quarterly earnings by UK freelancers fell 10% in the second quarter to £18,652, but on track to rise Freelancers cut their own day rates to £397 in the second quarter from £445 in the first quarter — lower than during the…

The UK's Federation of Small Business (FSB) has called the Conservative government's national insurance tax hike of 1.25% as “anti-small business” and could spark job losses of 50,000 or more. It will also lead to a 2.5% national…

Welcome back to the Freelancer's Lunch where we scan the net for topical, inspiring and career-impacting videos and podcasts talking about matters impacting the freelancer, contractor, and founder communities. In this week's selection,…

The numbers don't lie as they say and it looks like the self-employed have been the hardest hit by the pandemic, according to the latest ONS figures. Throughout the pandemic, self-employed workers were consistently more likely to report…

Authored by Vassilios Vassiliou, University of East Anglia; Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, University of East Anglia, and Ranu Baral, University of East Anglia Two weeks after your second COVID-19 vaccine dose, the protective effects of…