Tag Archives: Freelance pensions

Useful bookmarks on freelance employment and tax policies

Posted on April 21, 2022 by Paul Evans

Here’s something written by Alan Lockey for Demos – “Free Radicals – Britain’s self-employed millions urgently need a new deal…” [pdf], and an IPSE’s 2017 ‘tax manifesto’ paper on “A Fairer, More Efficient Tax System” [pdf] (h/t Martin McIvor)

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Pensions Auto-Enrolment – the basics for freelancers

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Paul Evans

The short version of this article: Employers may try to postpone the ‘auto-enrolment’ of people into their pension scheme and they may try to do it for people who are only on short-term contracts. But it is almost always in … Continue reading →

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Understanding self-employed pension tax relief

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Paul Evans

I occasionally have contact from freelance members who aren’t happy that they have been enrolled into a pension scheme as a result of the statutory auto-enrolment. My normal response is – firstly – to remind members that they are turning … Continue reading →

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Flexible savings trials to bridge the freelance pensions gap

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Paul Evans

I’m going to simply cut-and-paste from the press release from Nest Insight here as I think it says everything that needs explaining well enough: Nest Insight has launched two new pilots to trial flexible savings systems that are designed to … Continue reading →

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