Sick Pay Stops at the Payroll — Leaving the Self-Employed Exposed Liz Barclay, small business advocate and founder of http://www.Business111.com, has called on the Government to urgently address the absence of sick pay for the UK’s 4.4 million self-employed workers, following the publication of a major new report by the Fabian Society. The report, Self-Care: Providing Income Security for the Self-Employed, highlights a stark reality: self-employed people fall ill at similar rates to employees,Continue reading “Four Million Self-Employed Workers Still Get No Sick Pay, Warns Liz Barclay”
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Trump To Putin: This Is How You Do It
This article was originally published in http://www.express.co.uk Putin could learn a lot from Trump Compare and contrast, if you will, two recent military coup de main operations. The first of these was Russia’s attempt in February 2022 to decapitate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ’s government in Kyiv, replace it with a pro-Moscow administration, and subsume Ukraine back into greater Russia. The second was the very recent operation by US troops in Venezuela which basicallyContinue reading “Trump To Putin: This Is How You Do It”
Trump Topples Maduro — And Dares the World to Stop Him
No-one with a pulse can really have been surprised at recent events in Venezuela. The USA telegraphed its intent for months before finally taking action. We all knew something was going to happen, if not exactly what. Now Maduro and his wife are in US custody and a semi-power vacuum prevails in Caracas, with Trump mumbling something incomprehensible – probably even to himself – about the USA ‘going in and taking over’. We’ll see.Continue reading “Trump Topples Maduro — And Dares the World to Stop Him”
The UK’s payments on account system catches a lot of new sole traders by surprise.
Payments on account are advance payments towards your next Self Assessment tax bill (in this case for the year 25/26). You pay them on top of any tax you owe for the previous (24/25) tax year. HMRC uses payments on account to help spread the cost of your tax across the year rather than collecting it all at once. They apply mainly to: self‑employed people landlords anyone with untaxed income They are based onContinue reading “The UK’s payments on account system catches a lot of new sole traders by surprise.”
12 New Year Resolutions to make yours a thriving business in 2026
By Liz Barclay – co-founder http://www.business111.com It’s that time of year. Many of us are thinking about how we’ll do things differently over the next 12 months with the aim of making our businesses thrive. After all the disruption and uncertainty coupled with challenges like the rising cost of doing business and customers with less money to spend, a new year seems like the ideal time for new approaches. I’ve been looking for aContinue reading “12 New Year Resolutions to make yours a thriving business in 2026”