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		<title>Spurned freelancer dishes out cyber justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One unpaid invoice too far has pushed a freelancer over the edge! Web Designer Frank Jonen dished out some cyber justice by hijacking a client’s website in a dispute over pay.]]></description>
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		<title>HMRC changing phone numbers this summer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh from a peeved Public Accounts Committee grilling, HMRC are set to make changes to their much-maligned telephone lines, replacing all 0845 numbers with the 03 prefix by this summer.]]></description>
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		<title>Can Britain handle &#8220;two budgets&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet more flak for our beleaguered Chancellor George Osborne, this time around colleagues in the Treasury Committee are voicing concerns over his budget policy and urging him to re-establish a single annual budget in March.]]></description>
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		<title>HMRC sending out &#8216;amnesty&#8217; letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Boyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the continuing drive from HMRC to tackle tax evasion, the taxman has announced a 'tax amnesty' aimed at people who have been trying to bend the system. Letters are being sent out to inform everyone, be you a lone contractor or a huge company employing thousands.]]></description>
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		<title>Umbrellas face call for investigation from MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing political hot potato of umbrella company tax avoidance still shows little sign of cooling, with Labour MP John Cryer having secured a Westminster Hall debate on the regulation of payroll companies.]]></description>
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		<title>Contractors use Christmas lull to complete Self Assessments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Day registered a 40% surge in Self Assessment filings, according to HMRC, with 1,548 people completing their tax returns online on December 25th. For burgeoning numbers of freelancers and contractors then, form filling appears to be taking precedence over spending time with friends and family at Christmas, either reflecting a workforce of scrooges or perhaps more realistically, ones whose calendars are so full that every waking hour must be utilised. The build-up to the festive season saw an increase in tax returns too, with 14,330 filing returns, more than three-fold the figure of 4,115 for 2011. Elsewhere, Boxing Day saw an increase in returns too, with 4,685 submitted. Looking at the figures, an increasing number of contractors appear to be taking HMRC&#8217;s penalty procedures seriously, choosing to submit sooner rather than later&#8230;and who can blame them, given the multitude of fines on offer should you be a little lax with your tax facts. Photo by Matt Riggott]]></description>
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		<title>Older contractors bolstering national self-employed numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Boyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times of economic strife are usually said to spur on the young to make their own way in the world. Some of the best ideas come from destitute young'uns trying to survive off of rainwater and pocket lint. This is why it has come as a bit of a surprise that a recent Financial Times analysis has shown that it’s actually the older generation showing some much-needed entrepreneurial spirit.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Biggest change to payroll since 1944&#8243;, RTI, coming this April</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Norris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contractors operating their own limited company have some big changes in store this April, when Real Time Information (RTI for short) comes into force. ]]></description>
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		<title>Trust in banks falls to new low as contractors turn to accountants for advice</title>
		<link>http://www.contractoradvisor.co.uk/news/trust-in-banks-falls-to-new-low-as-contractors-turn-to-accountants-for-advice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.contractoradvisor.co.uk/news/trust-in-banks-falls-to-new-low-as-contractors-turn-to-accountants-for-advice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Boyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks haven’t exactly had the best press over the last few years, what with fraud, banker bonuses and a general cockiness that has managed to rile up the public to no end. Let’s be honest, bankers weren't exactly our favourite people to begin with, but their excesses and shortcomings have exacerbated people’s inclination to throw bricks through windows recently.]]></description>
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		<title>HMRC applies for permission to break the speed limit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you part of an organised crime syndicate with a burgeoning unpaid tax bill? Then be afraid, be very afraid. Spurred on by George Osborne’s sudden enthusiasm for cracking down on tax cheats, HMRC is seeking legislation that’ll allow their enforcers to break the legal speed limit in pursuit of tax dodgers.]]></description>
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