by ClearwaysAccountants | Jun 22, 2014 | Contractor, Self Employment, Small business advice
New rules are included in the Finance Bill 2014, going through Parliament at the moment to stop Non-UK umbrella companies avoiding national insurance and tax on their agency workers. Agencies based outside of the UK with no presence in the UK may not be liable for...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Jun 15, 2014 | Contractor, Self Employment, Small business advice
HMRC consider the building trade to be a target of the broader “false” self-employment rules. By expanding the definition of personal service to “personally involved in the provision of services” many contractors and sub-contractors may be...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Jun 8, 2014 | Freelancer, Self Employment, Small business advice
Are you working as self-employed through an agency? The Government dislikes self-employment generally as anyone who is self-employed can claim business and household expenses against income but they have decided that obtaining work through an agency is not...
by ClearwaysAccountants | May 16, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, IR35, Self Employment
New rules apply to agencies supplying workers and work as a ‘kind of’ IR35 for the self-employed. HMRC have dubbed these new regulations the “false” self-employment rules. Contractors working through their own limited companies are NOT...
by ClearwaysAccountants | May 1, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, IR35, Self Employment, Small business advice
Plumbers, IT contractors and senior interim managers all use service companies, but what does this mean for the collection of UK tax? The House of Lords has published its report on Personal Service Companies. Unsurprisingly, the report finds that the employed/self...
by ClearwaysAccountants | Apr 17, 2014 | Contractor, Freelancer, Self Employment, Small business advice, Tax Calculators
Our tax calculator for 2014-15 has been updated and is now live on our calculators page. Click on tax calculator2014-15 if you want to see how much tax you will pay trading as self-employed or through a limited company. To take a look at all our calculators, go the...
