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Katherine Steiner-Dicks

Katherine Steiner-Dicks is an Editorial Consultant and Founder of BuzzVestor Media, a B2B investment news-analysis and media services company that serves startups, publishers, investors, targeted clients and high-net-worth families on how to to create and sustain amazing content, businesses, wealth and lifestyles.

Contractors: tax specialist says avoid offshore umbrella PAYE schemes

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 12, 2022

Not all umbrella company PAYE schemes are what they seem says contractor tax specialist In a recent LinkedIn post, Graham Webber Director of Tax at WTT Consulting, which is a specialist in contractor tax, highlighted that contractor tax…

Why freelancers must set aside “worry time”

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 6, 2022

If more of us set aside time to worry, we are more likely to get some perspective on what's eating us and actually do something about it. Here are some things to consider when you set aside your "worry time" Rome wasn't built in a day…

Could new flexible working laws discourage self-employment in the UK?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Dec 6, 2022

Millions of Britons to be able to request flexible working on day one of employment. But is it all as rosy as the government wants us to believe? This week it was announced by the UK government that workers will have a greater say over…

Can creating a lifestyle business beat being a unicorn?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 30, 2022

Small business PR and news platform, Newspage, identified 52 businesses that aren't out to make millions, or have a "VC steal their soul" but are in it simply to generate enough money to give them a decent and independent lifestyle so they…

Tories must stop sugarcoating their “small business” and startup “support”

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 22, 2022

OPINION PM Rishi Sunak spoke to an audience at the CBI this week expressing that the Conservative government wants to "support small businesses to innovate." But few in the audience were convinced those words would amount to anything…

Salary skimming: whose money is actually being deducted?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 20, 2022

This article has been updated. OPINION While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will be interested to know that "salary skimming" has no definition in the FCSA's codes of…

Autumn statement: limited company freelancers squeezed like never before

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 17, 2022

Freelancers and contractors will see their earnings squeezed not only by higher taxes but tax grabs on dividends following the Autumn Statement announcements. Jeremy Hunt has delivered a budget that has included tens of billions of…

Autumn Statement: self-employed could be hit with more taxes

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 15, 2022

Everyone is preparing to pay more taxes following the Autumn Statement proposals, but some believe the self-employed could be unfairly over-taxed. Read what economists, tax specialists and MPs are expecting the Autumn Statement to reveal…

“Borderline unlawful?”: FCSA members report of agencies attempting assignment rate cuts…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 10, 2022

Contractor and freelancer experts respond to FCSA receiving reports that some employment agencies are looking to reduce assignment rates on grounds that there has been a national insurance rate cut. The Freelancer & Contractor…

“Exploited?” Why Britain’s temp workers are losing out on £97m each year

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Nov 9, 2022

OPINION Many of UK’s 1.6m temps are estimated to be missing out on thousands every year individually. What can they do about it? Julia Kermode of IWORK offers some tips. Amid a 40-year inflation high, soaring energy bills and…

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