• What expenses can you claim when working from home?

    • June 5, 2020
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    In light of the current pandemic, many contractors have found that they have been forced to work from home. While this means that we will no longer be able to claim expenses such as travel and to some extent subsistence, there are still other expenses we can claim which you may not be familiar with.

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  • How the Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will work

    • April 12, 2020
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    The Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will support self-employed individuals (including members of partnerships) whose income has been negatively impacted by COVID-19. The Government announcement on Thursday 26th March sets out the basics of who’s eligible and how it will work. Self-employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) The scheme will provide a grant to self-employed individuals

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  • Limited company contractors excluded from self-employed COVID-19 support

    • April 7, 2020
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    Limited company contractors won’t benefit from the new COVID-19 self-employed support package, unveiled by the Chancellor this week. What support will be available to the ‘self-employed’? According to HM Treasury news release, the self-employed will be able to access Government help in the form of a direct cash grant – worth up to 80% of their

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  • Government publishes draft IR35 legislation for private sector off-payroll rules

    • July 15, 2019
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    Draft IR35 legislation for off-payroll working in the private sector has today been published in Finance Bill 2019/20, containing a vow to forge ahead with the reforms from next April. ‘Necessary employment taxes’ Unveiling the bill last Thursday, the Treasury minister also said: “The government has previously announced that it will improve compliance with the

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