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SEISS grant five and the key changes freelancers should beware

The Self-Employment Income Support Scheme unfortunately has two stings in its tail.

17 June 2021

3 min

Pandemic accelerates moonlighting, as one in five become 'side-hustlers'

Freelancing gets its own shot in its arm, from permies both fed up from furlough and creative since covid.

10 May 2021

3 min

Freelancing in the UK in 2021: a market overview

The self-employed are on a knife edge. Fragile from covid, ready to lead the recovery, but impeded by government.

6 May 2021

4 min

Freelancers, HMRC self-assessment and VAT penalties are going points-based

How much the taxman’s new system will cost sole traders who pay late or submit late.

15 March 2021

3 min

IR35 experts caution UK freelance sector over HMRC’s ‘soft-landing’

Freelancers and their clients will find very little that is soft, or light, about the April 6th off-payroll rules -- experts.

19 February 2021

3 min

Here’s where tax returns faze freelancers, even if HMRC is delaying fines

The self-employed will embrace the Feb 28 waiver, but must still avoid six self-assessment traps.

26 January 2021

4 min

Freelancers' Questions: Can EU freelancers still do work stints in London?

'It’s now both business and pleasure if you’re self-employed and visiting the UK, but very little else.'

21 January 2021

3 min

Freelancers’ Questions: Do I need a UTR number for my theatre art contract?

'The Revenue’s way to identify you is definitely for life, not just for Christmas or the New Year.'

11 January 2021

3 min

Freelancers’ Questions: Are the UK’s EU freelancers hit by the Brexit deal?

Revealed: the new hoops that EU nationals freelancing in Britain must jump through to stay.

7 January 2021

3 min

Freelancers, what is required to complete your tax return?

As a freelancer, you have earnings outside of PAYE, and the chances are you’ll need to file a tax return.

4 January 2021

3 min

Why a UK Intermittents du Spectacle wouldn’t cut it for freelance creatives

Close but no cigar: a French scheme for performance workers would bring across its own issues if imported.

15 December 2020

5 min

To help UK freelancers, experts mull France’s ‘Intermittents du Spectacle’

An import to help end the ‘apartheid’ Britain’s self-employed suffer under is being backed, at least in spirit.

11 December 2020

4 min

Freelancers' Questions: How to tell the client of my covid-19 concerns?

The self-employed can inoculate against awkward coronavirus conversations by mixing the practical with the tactical.

26 November 2020

5 min

The Covid Cash Crunch: Freelancers, are you waiting too long to get paid?

Creative industry sole traders have comparatively generous payment terms. Is it time you closed the gap?

12 November 2020

5 min

Freelancer training and tax: when a skills course is an allowable expense

How sole traders can get a handy tax deduction if using the new lockdown to upskill.

2 November 2020

4 min

FreelanceUK readers, host your own event for European Freelancers Week

You’re invited! Unify with your fellow self-employed today, to show this pandemic our strength in numbers.

15 October 2020

3 min

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