One of the many wrongs of the Kiernan Hughes-Mason case is how candidate criminal history checks got characterised.

Any sort of trading history precludes dormant accounts, meaning micro-entity accounts must continue to be filed.

Concerned for their wellbeing, Australia just gave employees a right to disconnect. Maybe the UK should do the same, but for its freelance consultants too.

A bit of empowering knowledge can be tremendously useful in standing your ground during negotiations. And this back and forth may follow when you tell the next agent which offers it that “market rate” ...

Better outcomes, value for money, and improved prospects. That, at least, is the three-fold pledge of the chancellor’s now-underway rethink on retirement savings.

However, there was no explicit request for an appeal from Cowan’s side -- rather, the reply to HMRC in July contained the reasons that the defence believed the presenter wasn’t inside IR35.

As a judgment handed down on August 16th 2024 shows, Mainpay, an umbrella company, has been back to the Upper Tribunal (UT) to appeal the decision regarding the deductibility of travel and subsistence ...

Sky Sports rugby pundit tackled by the ‘growing trend of UT clashing with FTT on IR35,’ sidelining what happened -- in favour of the hypothetical contract.

The UK government’s significant change to the income threshold for self-assessment tax returns, moving it from £100,000 to £150,000, was made back on April 6th 2023 but it’s having ramifications right ...