How to price your services to sustain a healthy income could well be one of the biggest dilemma that contractors face. Go too high and clients have abundant opportunities to shop around and take their business to someone charging lower…
Read MoreTo coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week (https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/), ICS has collated a list of ‘top tips’ that can help you, as a contractor, manage your stress levels. It goes without saying, becoming a contractor is without doubt a stressful time. …
Read MoreFor most, the 2017/18 tax year will be a distant memory now as the first payslips for the new tax year have been issued and started to land. Notably, 2018/19 has seen the minimum wage increase as well as the…
Read MoreHMRC has started to target recruitment consultants in the first sign that they are in violation of the Criminal Finances Act 2017. These consultants are expected to have received ‘incentive’ payments from multiple non-compliant umbrella companies, whereby no tax was…
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will bring changes in data privacy regulation, making it the most important change in 20 years. The GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016 and will be enforced from…
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