http://www.shout99.com/contractors/index.pl Shout99.com - News matters for Freelancers en Copyright Shout99.com 2009-01-07T10:00+00:00 editor@shout99.com webmaster@shout99.com Shout99.com Headlines 2004-02-18T00:00+00:00 hourly 1 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/images/S99/new_s99.gif http://www.shout99.com/contractors/index.pl http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57968 Employment services provider, Parasol, has acquired specialist accountancy practice ‘Quay Accounting’, a nationwide business who provide accounting services for freelancers. Parasol acquires national accountancy firm Susie Hughes 2009-01-06T12:04+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57950 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). Call for cap on credit card charges Susie Hughes 2009-01-05T11:02+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57860 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. P11D on director's loan Alex Smith 2009-01-03T09:51+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57919 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....... Silly question...... Susie Hughes 2009-01-02T18:04+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57917 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. Smallest companies hit hardest with tax changes Susie Hughes 2009-01-02T12:27+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57872 In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Andy Burnham says he believes that new standards of decency need to be applied to the web. Labour sets out plans to censor the Internet Brian Curnow 2008-12-31T10:01+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57859 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. Review 2008 (2): IR35 Susie Hughes 2008-12-30T12:19+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57853 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. Biggest news of 2008 - Popped Bubbles jojo 2008-12-30T09:35+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=57852 2008 continued a trend which has been operating for freelancers for nearly a decade - that of 'shifting goal-posts'. Review 2008: Income shifting (1) Susie Hughes 2008-12-29T11:59+00:00 http://www.shout99.com/contractors/showarticle.pl?id=13630 <b>Shout99</b> 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). Shout99 Freelancers' Shop Susie Hughes 2008-12-24T11:42+00:00