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Long VAT-registration delays hit freelancers and their accountants

Between six and several months just to obtain a VAT number from HMRC is condemned as ‘an impediment to running a business.’

23 May 2023

4 min

Top 10 best-paying freelance creative jobs

Ranging from marketing to software, at £25 an hour and £600 a day, freelance posts are helping creative hirers weather a perfect storm.

16 May 2023

4 min

Best self-employed to be spotlighted at IPSE Awards 2023. Enter now!

Freelancers have until 5pm Monday to put themselves forward for an accolade (if your client hasn’t entered you already).

12 May 2023

3 min

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Freelancers, here’s a common VAT mistake. Are you making it too?

Set aside 20% of your next invoice, or a sixth of its total, to avoid the common VAT trap most self-employed fall into.

9 May 2023

3 min

Freelancers alerted to their day-to-day work not matching the contract

Actual arrangements versus contractual arrangements are increasingly being questioned and challenged, says Professional Passport.

5 May 2023

3 min

Self-employed jobs market for freelance creatives ‘not all doom and gloom’

Despite some approaching it with ‘slight trepidation,’ creative freelancing in the UK is paying out more -- even amid the ‘Great Recalibration.’

2 May 2023

3 min

Self-employment as a freelancer? It’s on the rise again

If ONS stats are right, and their steely determination is anything to go by, freelancers look like they are on the rebound.

28 April 2023

3 min

Amazon drivers’ case ‘is no Uber, but may be a catalyst for self-employed’

While its significance is still in doubt, an incoming FTT case against Amazon is billed to be interesting, expensive, and messy.

21 April 2023

3 min

Why your portfolio could lose or land the next freelance gig you go for

A dated CV or portfolio is the big mistake self-employed creatives too often made in 2023’s first quarter.

18 April 2023

3 min

Predictable hours legislation: a good deal for gig economy workers, at last

Freelancers are potentially among the ‘workers’ set to benefit from legislative certainty on when they’ll work, and what hours.

14 April 2023

4 min

Brexit impact on freelancers and UK creative firms, ‘an absolute nightmare’

The lack of provisions in the 2020 deal is as if the government has said, ‘Hey Creatives…Nope.’

11 April 2023

4 min

Freelancers with accounting periods unaligned to tax years must act

Will you be required to apportion your accounting profits in the tax year in which they arise?

4 April 2023

3 min

Status experts grumble at Just Eat making couriers self-employed

Hungry to work off its losses, the takeaway-delivery firm’s reclassification is billed as a risk it probably feels is worth taking.

28 March 2023

3 min

Spring Budget focussed on the labour market, yet ignored the self-employed

A ‘back to work’ Budget that overlooks the key route of people starting their own freelance ventures should go back to the drawing board.

27 March 2023

3 min

Spring Budget 2023: Chancellor offers self-employed next to nothing

Everything ranging from ‘a complete absence’ to ‘not a huge amount’ is unveiled to freelancers by Jeremy Hunt.

16 March 2023

6 min

Advisers to creative freelancers reveal Spring Budget 2023 hopes and fears

Chancellor Hunt is being overloaded by a sprawling list of demands, in a sign of just how much self-employed creatives are in need.

10 March 2023

6 min