Best core skills for freelancing — according to five award-winning creatives | Free-Work - Having last month joined more than 400 freelancers in London at our eighth annual Freelancer Awards, where the very best self-employed people operating in the UK today were spotlighted, I can absolutely share with you some of the traits that have made them undisputed — and now confirmed — winners of independent work, writes Shib...
Why our next prime minister must openly support the self-employed | Free-Work - The race is heating up. After a few weeks of campaigning, some of the Conservative leadership candidates from the original 10-strong field have either crashed and burned or set themselves up for the next round. But wrongly, not a single candidate has set out their stall on self-employment, writes Andy Chamberlain, director of policy at...
Freelancers’ Questions: Who owns the IP rights in a freelancer situation? | Free-Work - Freelancer’s Question: I’m a freelancer floral designer with an existing client but new client representatives, and they recently took on three large weddings. Aware I recently won a medal at the Chelsea Flower Show, the new representatives asked me if they could share some pictures on their Instagram. I said ‘yes’ and provided some wording....
Freelancers, are you all set for Base Period Reform and MTD for income tax? | Free-Work - How you keep your business records and prepare your accounts as a freelancer can be tricky enough, but there are two planned changes to the tax system which could affect both of these important activities for the self-employed. Planned by HMRC already, so get planning yourself… In this two-part article exclusively for FreelanceUK, Claire Thackaberry...
Now’s the time to banish the scourge of late payments to the self-employed | Free-Work - The ‘scourge of late payment’ is a phrase which has frequently been used in recent years, and for good reason. It denotes a very real problem affecting thousands of self-employed workers and sole traders across the UK – and perhaps, worryingly, that problem is bigger than ever today, writes Andy Chamberlain, director of policy at...