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IR35 limbo: could it motivate UK contractors to move to Spain?
If contractors and project freelancers are in limbo over their IR35 status, disheartened by umbrella company fees, being replaced by overseas contractors and lower take-home pay, should they seriously consider repatriating to markets such…
Sunak set to rebuild The City by tapping China’s £40tn financial services market
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has big plans to woo China's $40tn financial services market to The City. Freelance consultants servicing the financial services industry should prepare for any upcoming opportunities. Ting Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO…
Compliance platform Xolo raises €3m to support post-pandemic solopreneur boom
Xolo, an Estonian-born startup supporting freelancers and microbusinesses, has raised €3m to expand in 6 countries
The Freelance Informer asks Xolo CEO and Skype co-founding engineer, Allan Martinson if the startup has plans for…
Domicile diversification: is it just for the rich?
Entrepreneurs, high-net-worths and nomadic remote workers opt for domicile diversification and a new form of global mobility
COVID-19 has led to a spike in affluent entrepreneurs and international investors building up a diversified…
Google and Alphabet workers form union – what will it mean for its 60,000 temps, vendors and…
Google and other Alphabet company workers have created a union. What makes it different is that it will be open to all employees and contractors at any Alphabet company. The union will have dues-paying members, an elected board of…
BREXIT trade deal: what it means for globe-trotting freelancers, staffing agencies and their…
Welcome back to the Freelancers' Couch. This week we tackle a question from a globe-trotting freelancer on doing business in the EU in a post-Brexit marketplace.
Q: One of the reasons I became a contractor was to have the flexibility to…
Death of dear friend on building site inspires construction worker compensation startup
In 2014, when an accident on a building site resulted in the death of their mutual friend, the founders of US-Australian Safesite were inspired to launch a platform to streamline and digitize safety programmes. That app has since…
China: Is it a good time for freelancers and SMEs to target the world’s fastest-growing…
E-commerce in China accounts for about a third of all retail sales in China, and therefore nearly half of all e-commerce globally, according to Shopify. With markets looking depressed in the UK and Europe could now be an…
No-deal Brexit means ALL UK business travellers and service engineers to face hefty fines without…
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…
Croatia luring tech, finance and marketing foreign talent with digital nomad visas
If you would like to live the Mediterranean lifestyle and have lower costs of living than those in the UK, then Croatia might be a destination you could call home thanks to a new digital nomad visa scheme.
The first concrete regulatory…