“Biggest change to payroll since 1944″, RTI, coming this April
Contractors operating their own limited company have some big changes in store this April, when Real Time Information (RTI for short) comes into force.
View ArticleOlder contractors bolstering national self-employed numbers
Times of economic strife are usually said to spur on the young to make their own way in the world. Some of the best ideas come from destitute young'uns trying to survive off of rainwater and pocket...
View ArticleContractors use Christmas lull to complete Self Assessments
Christmas Day registered a 40% surge in Self Assessment filings, according to HMRC, with 1,548 people completing their tax returns online on December 25th. For burgeoning numbers of freelancers and...
View ArticleUmbrellas face call for investigation from MP
The ongoing political hot potato of umbrella company tax avoidance still shows little sign of cooling, with Labour MP John Cryer having secured a Westminster Hall debate on the regulation of payroll...
View ArticleHMRC sending out ‘amnesty’ letters
In the continuing drive from HMRC to tackle tax evasion, the taxman has announced a 'tax amnesty' aimed at people who have been trying to bend the system. Letters are being sent out to inform everyone,...
View ArticleCan Britain handle “two budgets”?
Yet more flak for our beleaguered Chancellor George Osborne, this time around colleagues in the Treasury Committee are voicing concerns over his budget policy and urging him to re-establish a single...
View ArticleHMRC changing phone numbers this summer
Fresh from a peeved Public Accounts Committee grilling, HMRC are set to make changes to their much-maligned telephone lines, replacing all 0845 numbers with the 03 prefix by this summer.
View ArticleSpurned freelancer dishes out cyber justice
One unpaid invoice too far has pushed a freelancer over the edge! Web Designer Frank Jonen dished out some cyber justice by hijacking a client’s website in a dispute over pay.
View ArticleNation’s youth catches the contracting bug
Read sections of the press, and you could be forgiven for thinking that the nation's youngsters are all ne’er-do-wells; feral miscreants crippling the country in a multitude of manners. Whilst that’s...
View ArticleRegulations for contractors set to be reduced?
As Business Minister, Michael Fallon’s been charged with getting British business burgeoning again and to that end, he’s been trying to look busy.
View ArticleCompliance costs for contractors and SMEs still rising
Compliance costs are going up, according to new research from the Forum of Private Business, contrary to coalition promises that they would cut both time and money on this front.
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