The Spring Budget offered a few reasons to celebrate, but freelancers should prepare for some tax and interest rate hikes over the course of 2023 Alcohol tax to jump to 10% in August Draft beers pulled in pubs will be 11p cheaper…

OPINION By Julia Kermode, IWORK The government’s Holiday Entitlement Consultation closes today. I feel addressing this matter is the “only way” to guarantee that temporary workers receive what’s rightfully theirs in holiday…

OPINION How can a once entrepreneur-turned-Chancellor sit comfortably with the "immorality of IR35's double-taxation"? This is just one of the concerns that the UK's self-employed, umbrella company workers and those advocating for their…

45 self-employed couriers have been given the green light to pursue their claim for unlimited backdated holiday pay from their engager, in an upcoming employment tribunal. What are the case's bigger implications for the agency and temp…

Michelle Mone’s husband linked to three tax avoidance schemes Loan Charge “tragedy” linked to tenth suicide UK Business Secretary Grant Shapps' decision to not implement a single labour market enforcement agency (as…

IR35 outstrips tax increases and cost of living as contractors’ biggest concern for 2023 Despite inflation reaching a 41-year high recently and the raft of tax freezes and tax hikes to be introduced in the 2023/24 tax year, the IR35…

The Freelance Informer looks back on 2022's top freelancer stories and how they could shape the freelance economy going into 2023 #1 IR35 Off-Payroll reforms would be repealed IR35 and Off-payroll policy news monopolised the…

Freelancer and startup numbers are likely to rise in 2023, even against the odds Following a spree of tech industry layoffs, tech talent is back in the jobs market. But those made redundant may be losing faith in the tech titans and be…

OPINION By Dave Chaplin, CEO and founder of tax compliance firm IR35 Shield Findings of an HMRC research report on the impact of the Off-payroll working rules on the contractor labour market, private sector and voluntary sector…

This article has been updated. OPINION While not all Freelance Informer readers are contractors or umbrella company workers, many are, so they will be interested to know that "salary skimming" has no definition in the FCSA's codes of…