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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.

Modern-day “serfdom”? Brits spend over 40% of the year working for the taxman. Umbrella…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Jun 8, 2022

Taxpayers worked 159 days for HMRC this year. The 8th of June is the first day they start working for themselves. But with umbrella company contractors forking out both employee and employer national insurance contributions, and the…

Google contractors battle injustices

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Jun 7, 2022

Strike threats over return-to office orders and cases of recruiters reportedly skimming a percentage of contractor salaries are just some of the developments being addressed by the Alphabet Workers Union. Google Maps contract workers in…

The political party most likely to win the hearts of voters if the general election was held…

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Jun 6, 2022

OPINION From the 88 constituencies which the Conservatives either (a) won from Labour in 2019, or (b) currently hold with a majority of less than 15pts over Labour, YouGov's modelling predicts that just three would remain in…

Partygate: did its ramifications influence revisions to the Ministerial Code?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks Jun 1, 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has written to Lord Geidt this week, the Conservative Party’s ethics adviser and former Private Secretary to the Sovereign, in response to the latest annual report from the Independent Adviser on Ministers’…

A world without freelancers is a world without free thinkers

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 30, 2022

If IR35 was a tax mechanism used in centuries past, I dare say the CEST "tool" we are presented with today, would have been a befuddling series of questions presented by the tax collector to unsuspecting freelancers. Freelancers, much…

Energy Profits Levy: how much money will you get?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 26, 2022

The vast majority of households will receive £550Pensioners will receive £850Almost all of the eight million most vulnerable households in the country will, in total, receive support of at least £1,200Ofgem expects the energy price cap to…

IR35 could blockade new government taskforce to support female start-ups

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 26, 2022

The British government is launching a taskforce to support women entrepreneurs, tackle investing barriers, and increase the number of women-led fast-growing businesses outside the capital. But with many women starting out as solo-person…

When is it worth paying early redemption charges on a fixed-rate mortgage?

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 20, 2022

If the Bank of England rate hits 1.5%, it could mean more than a third of people with variable-rate mortgages face difficulties.Meanwhile, with 1.5 million fixed-rate mortgages set to expire this year, more than a third could face…

IR35: Contractors lose their independence, now careers finds new report

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 20, 2022

Twelve months on Contractors are still considering leaving their profession due to IR35, according to a new survey. The news comes at a time that experts call for a boycott of the Future of Work Review as they predict it could stifle…

Why I bought the Hairy Bikers’ new healthy cookbook before it was even out on the shelves

Katherine Steiner-Dicks May 18, 2022

I am not one for impulse purchases. But, on this one sunny morning, I made an exception. I happened to be on the way back from the school run and tuned into the Chris Moyles radio show when one of Britain’s foodie heroes came on – Si King…

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