Tag: Self-Employed
Government urged to end IR35 anomaly
The UK government is facing calls from campaigners to end an anomaly in IR35 legislation which has led to some freelancers paying a double...
Self-employed workers could be affected by insolvency figures
Freelancers and the amount of work they received could be significantly affected by the latest number of registered company insolvencies.According to figures from HMRC,...
Just 9 per cent of entrepreneurs planning to establish new business...
A new survey from cloud accounting software firm FreeAgent has found that just 9 per cent of entrepreneurs in the UK say they plan...
Why The Self-Employed Should Consider Income Protection
With the start of 2021 seeing the start of a new national lockdown, it sees the start of another uncertain year for self-employed workers...
HMRC’s pandemic payment terms prove popular
Almost 25,000 taxpayers have taken advantage of a recent relaxation of the threshold under which tax due to HM Revenue & Customs can automatically...
Number of self-employed falls by nearly half a million
The number of self-employed workers in the UK fell to 4,496,000 in the three months to October, representing a quarterly drop of 183,000.
The Association...
Self employed numbers continue to fall amid pandemic
The number of self-employed workers in the UK has fallen for the third consecutive quarter, according to the latest data from the Office for...
A third of self-employed ineligible for SEISS
Over a
million people were left out of the government’s coronavirus financial support
scheme for the self-employed, according to new statistics published by HM
Revenue & Customs...
Self-employed workforce shrinks as UK sheds 750,000 jobs amid pandemic
The number of self-employed individuals in the UK decreased by a record almost quarter of a million in the second quarter of 2020 as...
Number of workers on payroll falls by 650,000
The number of workers in the UK in PAYE employment fell by nearly 650,000 in June compared to March’s level, whilst the government furlough...