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: Parasol acquires national accountancy firm

Employment services provider, Parasol, has acquired specialist accountancy practice ‘Quay Accounting’, a nationwide business who provide accounting services for freelancers.

: Call for cap on credit card charges

Small businesses must be supported and sustained in 2009 as they will be the key to bringing the UK out of the economic downturn, according to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

: P11D on director's loan

As a director of a limited company and having a directors loan I pay interest on that loan at a rate set by the HMRC.

: Silly question......

I appreciate that most of Shout99's readers are considerably more mathematically-gifted than I am. But my 10-year-old niece had me working on this for ages over the holidays. I got there....eventually....(and sorry if you already know this one) but it amused me.......

: Smallest companies hit hardest with tax changes

Half a million of Britain’s smallest companies will have paid £2.4 billion more in tax between 2006 and the end of the next tax year as a result of changes to small companies tax.

: Labour sets out plans to censor the Internet

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web.

: Review 2008 (2): IR35

Next year sees the 10th anniversary of the term 'IR35' entering the vocabulary of freelancers - but still the goal posts keep moving as the higher courts give their interpretation of what was always a law which was going to need clarification in the legal process rather than being clearly defined from day one.

: Biggest news of 2008 - Popped Bubbles

It looks to me that since information technology has already had it's own crunch - several in fact. I hesitate to say that IT will weather any 'storm' because who knows whether storm-like analogies have any bearing on waking out of a massive boom-based, fictional economic setting.

: Review 2008: Income shifting (1)

2008 continued a trend which has been operating for freelancers for nearly a decade - that of 'shifting goal-posts'.

: Shout99 Freelancers' Shop

Shout99 has teamed up with a number of online partners to provide a wide range of services specifically designed for freelancers, many with rates or terms specially negotiated for Shout99 users. (For more information, click on 'title' links below).