My 8 step guide to a multi-billion pound business
After a lot of study and reading all kinds of authoritative sources I think I’ve worked out a business idea that lets you build a multi-billion pound business over the course of a few years.
View ArticleA ringing endorsement from some politician called Dave
I really must think about writing these jottings earlier in the week. I routinely find myself talking about things that have just happened rather than predicting what’s about to happen.
View ArticleWhat happens when the world changes?
One of the great appeals of freelancing your way through life is the constant change, working in new places with new people, solving new problems and generally getting away from the mundane grind of...
View ArticleIf you think a professional accountant is expensive, wait till you hire an...
For some reason I’ve seen a whole raft of questions and complaints about that most retiring of professionals, our friend the humble accountant. What is more, the questions and complaints being raised...
View ArticleAt a VERY long stretch, this IR35 judgement may be supportable
You will probably have heard me sounding off at fairly regular intervals about how inconsistent and impossible to judge the average IR35 case is. I’ve looked at many appeal judgements over the years...
View ArticleIt’s been a difficult year for many but not a disastrous one, overall.
So this is Christmas, and what have we done? Well, speaking personally, quite a lot in one way and another. But it has been a funny old year in some ways.
View ArticleGAAR – It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Don’t know about you but I usually have that optimistic hope at this time of the year that things are going to get better. Possibly fuelled by an excess of several Christmas spirits, but mainly on the...
View ArticleBack to the drawing board with the electric pencil again
Start the year as you mean to go on. Not a bad maxim, of course. Except that I’m starting with the prospect of being out of work at the end of the month. Not, I hasten to add, that I hadn’t seen it...
View ArticleHMRC – the single biggest inhibitor to the recovery I can think of
January, and the vexed question of self-assessment rears its head again. My accountant friends have said good bye to the family until February and closeted themselves with quill pens and envelopes of...
View ArticleHow to successfully complete an IT contract – then rinse and repeat.
I’m coming rapidly to the end of my current engagement and have been reflecting on what I’ve been doing. Not out of any great sense of sadness or nostalgia but because I have to hand over to the...
View ArticleWe can glean some interesting insights from this débacle
There’s been a wonderful example this week of exactly the kind of problem we contractors are faced with when trying to get our point across. A government agency, SLC, was having some operational...
View ArticleIR35 – 12 years on and still nobody knows if they’re in or out
In the aftermath of the Lester affair, I have managed to get involved in a bit of a debate has sprung up about what actually is a freelancer.
View ArticleIR35 – and still it rumbles on…
Since outing Mr Lester as a tax avoiding monster intent on destroying the UK economy single-handed, the press have continued to turn up cases where people are working for the Civil Service in a range...
View ArticleBudget 2012 – the new utopia of a modern Britain
One of the few advantages of resting between contracts is that you can go off on holiday without that nagging feeling that you’re throwing away lots of earnings to do so.
View ArticleMy 8 step guide to a multi-billion pound business
After a lot of study and reading all kinds of authoritative sources I think I’ve worked out a business idea that lets you build a multi-billion pound business over the course of a few years.
View ArticleA ringing endorsement from some politician called Dave
I really must think about writing these jottings earlier in the week. I routinely find myself talking about things that have just happened rather than predicting what’s about to happen.
View ArticleWhat happens when the world changes?
One of the great appeals of freelancing your way through life is the constant change, working in new places with new people, solving new problems and generally getting away from the mundane grind of...
View ArticleIf you think a professional accountant is expensive, wait till you hire an...
For some reason I’ve seen a whole raft of questions and complaints about that most retiring of professionals, our friend the humble accountant. What is more, the questions and complaints being raised...
View ArticleAt a VERY long stretch, this IR35 judgement may be supportable
You will probably have heard me sounding off at fairly regular intervals about how inconsistent and impossible to judge the average IR35 case is. I’ve looked at many appeal judgements over the years...
View ArticleIt’s been a difficult year for many but not a disastrous one, overall.
So this is Christmas, and what have we done? Well, speaking personally, quite a lot in one way and another. But it has been a funny old year in some ways.
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