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22% of Brits motivated to set up their own business, says study
An entrepreneurial spirit has been cultivated during the lockdown period, according to a new study that reported that 22% of Brits have been motivated to begin their own businesses in the creative industry during COVID. This could be…
Chancellor not budging on offering new schemes for UK’s ‘excluded’
Chancellor Sunak shows no signs of budging on conscious and previously made COVID-19 support scheme decisions that have impacted millions of excluded self-employed people.
‘Bounce Back’ mortgage responds to self-employed application woes
More red tape on the cards for self-employed mortgage applicants.
The UK’s five million self-employed will have to go through more loops and provide more account information when applying for a mortgage following post-COVID market…
Hiring companies: millions of freelancers’ fates are in your hands come April 2021
Tax reform must reflect the modern workforce, which is increasingly made up of independent workers who are self-employed. Close to 5 million people, not including millions of gig workers.
Can’t pay your tax bill on time? There’s still hope. That is if you are not among…
The HMRC has extended the payment on account deadline for Self Assessment to 2021 and also set up self-employed loan support in these lean times. But not all taxpayers are feeling the love. Some 3 million have been left in a taxpayer's…
IR35: There are larger economic ramifications at play.
Just when the UK workforce could be going into freefall when an anticipated quarter of furloughed workers will be made redundant by this Autumn, the option to put their skills to work by going freelance will be overshadowed by what many…
New work? Great if you can get paid for it
Anil Stocker, CEO at MarketFinance, likens the current late-payments plight of UK SMEs as a “three-pronged assault” on SME finances.
Algorithms are biased, and it looks like designers could be to blame.
Humans and Artificial Intelligence have something in common. They are both biased, according to the brand managers, web designers, futurists, and UX design agencies that have experienced data set bias in the fashion and beauty industry…