Here on The Life Hub, it’s not all tax and freelance advice. Occasionally we like to chat with some of our clients and find out a bit about how they’ve made a success of their businesses. So this week we travelled to a galaxy far, far away (West London) to find out about AC Worldwide, a company […]
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and embrace the freelance life. Good on you! It’s tough work, but as most of us will tell you, the rewards are worth it. Since you’re taking it seriously and you’re not going to work for free (because we don’t do that anymore), we thought it might be […]
The internet offers freelancers many things, from tools with which to do their work through to sites that help them find that work. It also helps them to come together as a community, and never more so than this week. The international freelance community has been in full voice over the last few days, initially celebrating the ‘Freelance Isn’t […]
The Autumn Statement, due towards the end of November, takes us one step closer to a new tax year, and another step closer to the new IR35 legislation coming into effect. In order to better understand what this means, we’ve put together this brief 5-minute read on how being inside or outside IR35 could effect you. […]
As regular readers will know, we recently opened an office in Birmingham, which means that some of the articles on our blog were created with the intention of helping out the Brummie freelance community as best we can. Last year we looked at hot-desking in London, so this week we’ve turned out attentions to the pumping […]
Ask any accountant and they’ll tell you the same thing: the most commonly asked question they get asked is whether it’s better to set yourself up as a sole trader or a limited company. As you might imagine, there’s no easy answer. In fact, we’ve covered this subject a number of times before on our blog, […]
It’s messy and it looks complicated, but having a working knowledge of dividend tax is pretty important if you’re planning on running your own limited company. This week on the blog, we’ve laid out the basics while also taking a look at some of the changes that have been made to the dividend tax rules in […]
Last week we looked at how the ‘gig economy’ is benefitting the country’s freelancers. In a follow-up interview, we chat with digital marketing guru, Nick Wilsdon – founder of E3 Business Incubator and Global Channel Optimisation Lead at Vodafone Group. For two decades, Wilsdon has been recognised as an expert in search engine optimisation, being one […]
In these times of financial uncertainty, one thing seems to be clear: those working in the so-called ‘gig economy’ are really finding their way forward. Matt Roberts, chief executive of In Touch Networks, recently noted that “40% of Americans will be self-employed by 2020“, and both he and a recently study entitled Way We Work suggest […]