A bit of empowering knowledge can be tremendously useful in standing your ground during negotiations. And this back and forth may follow when you tell the next agent which offers it that “market rate” ...

However, there was no explicit request for an appeal from Cowan’s side -- rather, the reply to HMRC in July contained the reasons that the defence believed the presenter wasn’t inside IR35.

Concerned for their wellbeing, Australia just gave employees a right to disconnect. Maybe the UK should do the same, but for its freelance consultants too.

Better outcomes, value for money, and improved prospects. That, at least, is the three-fold pledge of the chancellor’s now-underway rethink on retirement savings.

As a judgment handed down on August 16th 2024 shows, Mainpay, an umbrella company, has been back to the Upper Tribunal (UT) to appeal the decision regarding the deductibility of travel and subsistence ...

The big difference between the contractor with their own PSC, and the employee in the question, is that the PSC should pay the contractor the appropriate mileage rate for the travel to the temporary ...

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It’s completely reasonable on the part of the recruiter that they need an answer, even if it’s just to take your application forward. You still retain the choice to explain you’ve been job-hunting or ...

Taxman says seven avoidance schemes (all employment tax-related) should be avoided, even though contractors often have ‘little choice’ but to use them.

The UK government’s significant change to the income threshold for self-assessment tax returns, moving it from £100,000 to £150,000, was made back on April 6th 2023 but it’s having ramifications right ...