June 2022

By Tony Clark, Senior Proposition Manager, St James’s Place (www.sjp.co.uk) What's covered in this article: What can freelancers do to avoid having many small pension pots?What are the different types of SIPPs or pension funds that a…

If the UK remains inhospitable territory for freelancers then we can probably expect younger generations to have delayed career trajectories. OPINION Most 18-year-olds won't have a clue what tax regulation IR35 is, but in my family,…

Colour has an impact on how people treat and react to you. Whether it be the colours of your car, clothes, the colour of your hair or the colours of makeup you choose - they all have an effect. That's according to research conducted by two…

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…

The HMRC may be urging customers to leave another tax avoidance scheme promoted by an umbrella company, but there's no talk yet of making the London-based firm pay up. It seems the contractors that fell into the scheme may have to do that.…

The following is an excerpt of an account published by Memorial Sloan Ketting Cancer Center regarding how rectal cancer disappeared in some 14 people following experimental use of immunotherapy. Given there has been a disturbing rise in…

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…

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…

Most freelancers are juggling projects and family demands as usual so when they are asked to bring something to a Jubilee Party dishes for all the neighbours to witness, they may start to fret. For those last-minute attempts to impress…

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’…