2025

If you're working through an umbrella company or agency this Christmas, HMRC has updated its online tool to help you make sure you're being paid properly. Why now? More than 300,000 temporary workers are being urged to check their…

OPINION A Youlend-Upwork partnership highlights growing freelancer reliance on credit to bridge cash flow gaps and take on bigger projects. Despite filling a market gap, Katherine Steiner-Dicks feels something fundamental about the…

Turn family and local traditions into profitable tourism businesses with UK Living Heritage recognition. We suggest several business models that align particularly well with Living Heritage recognition, each offering different revenue…

UK freelancers and umbrella workers face a take-home pay cut due to 2025 post-Budget tax rises and threshold changes. Learn the essential rate increases (1.5% to 10%) needed to protect your income, with suggestions on calculating costs and…

The UK's frozen tax thresholds and rise in tax on dividends could be pushing more self-employed workers to consider Jersey's 20% income tax cap. But once you factor in social security and living costs, which location leaves you better off?…

Industry squeeze pushes publications to rely on 80% outsourced content as staff numbers plummet Freelance journalism rates have barely budged in a quarter of a century, with some editors paying writers "not far off" what they offered 25…

CIPD report hints at hiring trends and best bets for pitches and jobs going into 2026 The UK job market is showing cautious stability this autumn, creating targeted opportunities for freelancers and specialist contractors. According…

Britain's 4.38m freelancers need an independent cross-sector Freelance Champion and Commissioner who has legislative voting rights When the House of Lords debated the government's Employment Rights Bill back in July, peers raised a…

New settlement deal offers financial relief for thousands of contractors. Here, we highlight some of the concessions The Government has announced an overhaul of the controversial Loan Charge, offering a new and more generous settlement…

Despite Chancellor Reeves facing calls for her resignation, Prime Minister Starmer stands by her, the Budget and fiscal gap claims Budget background and backlash Business owners and MPs, such as Shadow chancellor of the Duchy of…