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Although there have been self-employed individuals in the UK for hundreds of years now, the HMRC is yet to fully get to grips with the taxation of them, resulting in clampdowns and expensive targeted campaigns to recover missed payments.
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Everyone has needed some sort of medicine during sometime in their lives, but many underestimate how much money is lost through medicine waste.
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New to contracting? Don’t want to work through an agency? Then working through your own limited company may be the option for you.
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As a job board, contractjobs.com is unable to supply or handle work permits and working visas. However, if you seek a work permit, there are a number of avenues to look down. Firstly it is important to determine whether or not you are eligible to work in the UK.
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Contract job hunting is in a league of its own. Contractors are highly skilled professionals with vast experience, which can make creating the perfect covering letter a tedious task.
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There are quite a few employment laws that many believe should be tweaked and changed, one of them being the qualifying time period concerning Unfair Dismissal.
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The latest Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) has shown the UK manufacturing sector’s index rose to its highest point in eight months.
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So you’re a contractor, you’re good at your job, but when it comes to talking fees, you don’t feel so comfortable.
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Negotiating rates – it’s a bit of a minefield, isn’t it? We want to get what we’re worth, we want to get near the top end of the range available but, at the same time, we don’t want to price ourselves out of the job.
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Forget Google, eBay, Amazon and all the other major players within the World Wide Web, small and medium sized enterprises are the true underdogs of the internet world according to a recent report from the Daily Telegraph.
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A recent survey has suggested the United Kingdom is a global leader in ‘cyber power’ for its ability to deal with cyber-attacks and deploying the necessary digital infrastructure for a productive and secure economy.
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Facebook is most definitely a fan of making minor changes to its layout. But due to a massive expansion plan, many Facebook users have been offered a whole new look to add to their current profile.
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Social media has now become a huge influence in billions of lives. The biggest are undoubtedly Facebook and Twitter.
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The latest meeting has taken place by the Treasury approved IR35 Forum. The group has been launched to look at ways of improving how IR35 can be administered by HMRC.
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Compared to July 2009, this year’s decrease in permanent job vacancies has taken the fastest plunge yet.
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We have all heard the generic rules concerning CV writing. Keeping page numbers down and being job specific are all things job hunters have to consider, however, the nature of contracting means that freelance professionals need to fit a lot more experience into their CV, which can become a tedious task.
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Security cleared contractors are basically granted access to classified information while working on contracts.
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The turn of the year has left us trying to fulfil a number of new resolutions to keep us motivated for coming year. If you are one of the millions who wish to further your career then maybe it may be time to spruce up your CV.
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January: the first month of year and sometimes the most depressing. So what better way to spend it than filling out your self-assessment forms?
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The number of new start up in 2011 will grow nearly 20 per cent more than in 2010 according to a business intelligence firm.
