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Call for agency staff to break strikes – will contractors and recruiters take the risk?
It is unclear how serious the government is in its proposals to change the law around strikes and agency workers – or how interested major staffing companies would be in getting involved in what would be highly controversial supplies.…
IR35: Move abroad and you’ll get preferential treatment from UK clients, says contractor
READER LETTERS
I have been following your newsletter and meaning to get in touch for a while. I am one of the many small business operators in the IT sector who emigrated in recent years due to IR35 changes and ever-increasing taxes…
Fiverr launches new platform called Togetherr™
Getting access to $50K+ advertising campaigns as a freelancer could be career-changingThe new company’s proprietary technology, the Creative Genome™, uses AI and machine learning to build creative teams for each unique project and…
The IR35 F-up: how do we explain it to our kids?
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,…
Modern-day “serfdom”? Brits spend over 40% of the year working for the taxman. Umbrella…
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…
“I’m a miracle”: cancer disappears in 14 people after experimental use of immunotherapy
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…
The political party most likely to win the hearts of voters if the general election was held…
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…
Impressive last-minute Jubilee Party dishes
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…
Partygate: did its ramifications influence revisions to the Ministerial Code?
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’…
A world without freelancers is a world without free thinkers
If IR35 was a tax mechanism used in centuries past, I dare say the CEST "tool" we are presented with today, would have been a befuddling series of questions presented by the tax collector to unsuspecting freelancers.
Freelancers, much…