October 2020

Rather than excluding the newly self-employed and company directors in accessing Bounce Back loans, the government should be supporting them to keep their businesses alive, generate new business and create new jobs. This is the line of…

The end of the year is near, so don't lose out on Google ad credits! Search engine giant Google is giving its small-business customers $340m in ad credits, which can be used towards future ad spend, until the end of 2020 across Google’s…

The HMRC has introduced a 'workaround' for those who have been unable to obtain a national insurance number and need to register for self-employment and obtain a Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR), The Institute of Chartered Accountants of…

Being self-employed is often a personal choice led by personal circumstances or an innate entrepreneurial drive to carve out your own career and destiny - you do what you love. But in the month leading to April 2021, many freelancers and…

Around one-in-five young people, and over one-in-five black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) workers, who were furloughed during lockdown have since their lost jobs – and just one-in-three young people who have lost their jobs have been…

The government should introduce new laws to protect people from losing life-changing sums of money to bank transfer fraud after the Brexit transition period is over, consumer finance and comparison site Which? has urged. At…

The Government’s £12.7bn Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) has been terribly targeted at those in need, according to a major new Resolution Foundation report to be published later this week. With over 400,000 workers…

Once IR35 comes around next year, the entrepreneurial spirit of the freelance economy could be driven out of the UK, leaving contractors and freelancers to have little choice than 'become employees' to umbrella companies - and pay for the…

The Freelance Informer team understands that sometimes friends, family, and co-workers just don't have all the answers to your freelancer questions, so hop on 'The Freelancers' Couch' and tell us your worries.. tell us your…