December 2020

Universal Credit Claimants could see their payments made slightly earlier this December to take into account of the bank holidays. We have provided the estimated dates below based on the government's website. Bank holiday payment dates …

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday night issued Emergency Directive 21-01, in response to a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by malicious…

The charity, Money Advice Trust, which is behind charities National Debtline and Business Debtline, has written to the Minister for Small Business, Paul Scully, to make the case for a dedicated ‘Covid-19 Self-employment Recovery…

If you plan on carrying out work or services in the EU after January 1st, even if you are self-employed or a director of your own limited company, then you will need a special permit to do so. That includes visiting a conference or…

HMRC’s IR35 tool, Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST), has been monitored and the results have shown that the online tool has been unable to deliver a verdict for enquiring contractors and freelancers over 188,000 times in the past…

The European Commission has not included financial services in an emergency no-deal contingency plan should the last ditch Brexit trade talks fail in Brussels on Sunday 13 December. Why? On the grounds that further market access in…

Filing your taxes early may help you secure the third SEISS grant, according to a report by Which? The UK’s third self-employed grant to cover eligible businesses between February 2021 to April 2021 must be claimed on or before the…

Many children across the UK, and pretty much every corner of the world, grew up a little faster than parents may have wished this year. That largely came down to lockdown social isolation, but probably more so, parental finances becoming…

If more cases of allergic reactions do come to light, or a stance by the global medical profession takes a similar path to that now being taken for the flu jab, we could see regulators still encourage people to take the vaccine in time.…

As previously reported, The Freelance Informer has highlighted the failure of the UK government to support all its self-employed taxpayers whether that is in the form of a freelancer or limited company startup. This lack of support has…