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Tag: Freelancers

Make Freelancers Your Christmas Gift To Your Business

November 13, 2025

By Nigel Sarbutts

Christmas time is hectic for businesses, with many staff away and those in work not performing to their best ability, could hiring freelancers plug the unproductivity gap?

750,000 employment status results are called into question, but why?

June 21, 2018

By Letitia Booty

The interpretation of the mutuality of obligation aspect of the IR35 laws are being hotly contested today as David Chaplin of ContractCalculator accuses HMRC of misleading the Chancellor.

Paying tax must be just as ironclad for self-employed workers

March 6, 2017

By Charlie Mullins

While the self-employed helped Britain’s economic recovery, Charlie Mullins believes legislation is needed to ensure the paying of tax is better monitored.

Is the chancellor Uber keen to level tax for employees and self-employed

February 28, 2017

By Staff writer

It’s impossible to ignore the rise of the gig economy, so RJP’s Anne Eager explains how HMRC will go about tackling this new tax collection quandary.

The rise of the gig economy a guide to hiring interim managers

November 29, 2016

By Staff writer

The gig economy has had much publicity recently, especially since the controversial Uber case in which the company lost the right to classify its UK drivers as self-employed.

Future of UK gig economy could have been thrown into question by Uber’s workers rights case

November 3, 2016

By Staff writer

Aaron Hayward, employment specialist at DJM Solicitors, asks what Uber’s recent employment tribunal ruling on workers rights will mean for businesses that are part of the gig economy.

How will businesses be hit by the Uber employment tribunal ruling?

November 2, 2016

By Staff writer

It’s hard to escape news of the Uber employment tribunal ruling, where a long-awaited decision on the status of two taxi-drivers working for the company found its conclusion. This really is the employment law case of the year. But why?

The designer that started a business in the sector he loathed tax and accounting

July 29, 2015

By Zen Terrelonge

Trained designer Dave Legion has been working independently in a field he loves for more than a decade, so Real Business caught up with the entrepreneur to find out why he moved into tax and accounting – a sector he admits to loath.

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