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Different IT and tech career paths you can take in 2022

The IT and tech industry is rapidly growing and one of the great benefits of getting involved in this sector is the variety of jobs that you can open yourself up to.

9 March 2023

5 min

What’s so good about freelancing, and why do people go self-employed?

Ahead of Spring Budget 2023, IPSE asks two key questions and hopefully, chancellor Hunt will have some supportive responses.

7 March 2023

4 min

Freelancer burnout: Top tips for keeping professional exhaustion at bay

Five strategies from a leading life coach that self-employed creatives can try to stop feeling frazzled.

3 March 2023

4 min

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ChatGPT: how creative freelancers can make the app work for them

Far from being a threat, the tool of the moment can offer self-employed creatives a helping hand.

27 February 2023

4 min

How IR35 traps can be avoided as a freelancer

Five client requests that could see an outside IR35 contract fall inside the rules.

24 February 2023

4 min

Cyber Scotland Week: Cyber Security Careers and Digital Transformation in Scotland

What is Cyber Scotland Week?Cyber Scotland Week takes place between 27th February and 5th March.

23 February 2023

3 min

Tesla recalls more than 360,000 self-driving cars over software flaws in the US.

Tesla are leading the way when it comes to autonomous vehicles, as all Tesla cars now come standard with advanced hardware capable of providing Autopilot features, and full self-driving capabilities—through software updates designed to improve functionality.Tesla’s self-driving featuresAutopilot is .

23 February 2023

3 min

Freelancers reminded that labels don’t decide or alter employment status

EAT: Being part of an HMRC scheme for the self-employed doesn’t determine you as self-employed.

21 February 2023

4 min

Any risk if my client moves me from retainer to ‘required 9-to-5’?

Far from just losing billable hours, one creative may have lost the commercial status they’ll need to stay outside IR35.

17 February 2023

5 min

Netherlands MVV: what self-employed Britons need to know

Quite a big section of small print for UK freelancers to read, before they can successfully go Dutch.

14 February 2023

3 min

Two creative heavyweights are fighting 'Oxford University’s Uberisation'

With ramifications for the gig economy, a very unexpected case could lead to securer terms for the hard-working.

10 February 2023

3 min

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax delayed: what do freelancers need to do?

In December 2022, the government announced its decision to delay introducing Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD for ITSA) for two more years until April 2026, but do freelancers need to do anything?

9 February 2023

3 min

Freelancer MVL Solution from SFP

SFP MVL are the number 1 provider of Members Voluntary Liquidation (MVL) solutions in the UK. As part of the award winning SFP Group and the preferred choice for the majority of freelancer accountants, you can be assured that if you want to close down your company, your money is in safe hands!

7 February 2023

2 min

Freelancers, here’s your 2023 marketing plan for your self-employed biz

How Google, LinkedIn, Clutch, and not too much Zoom can take your sole trader business to new heights this year.

7 February 2023

5 min

Major Players asks creative industries freelancers to have their say

A new survey for creatives is likely to confirm the freelancing market as still lumpy, but seeing a steady flow of new opportunities.

3 February 2023

3 min

Mortgages for Freelancers

The difference in pay structure between an employee and a freelancer can lead to the self-employed being penalised when it comes to getting a mortgage. We have partnered with Freelancer Financials to provide mortgages for freelancers, which are fair and reasonable.

31 January 2023

2 min

Self-employed try to file at the 11th hour (and keep their cool) with HMRC

We’re busy. It’s complicated. And I can’t afford it, say freelancers ahead of their ‘mad dash’ to self-assess before midnight.

31 January 2023

4 min

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