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Articles on the UK Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS), the government initiative aimed at providing financial support to self-employed individuals adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Self-employed to be offered fourth and final £7,500 grant in Budget

Over a million self-employed excluded from Government Covid-19 support set to be ignored again in next week’s Budget

Government Grants

Government must help self-employed excluded due to 50% income rule

Influential thinktank the Institute for Fiscal Studies weighs into self-employed debate for second time in as many days.

Government Grants

MPs give taxman six weeks to sort out Covid payments for freelancers

Over 500,000 freelancers wait to see if they will be included in final round of self-employment Covid-19 grant.

News

Taxman gives self-employed more time to file your tax return

HMRC to waive penalties for self-employed who file 2019-20 tax return late due to Covid-19

News

Prospect union calls for emergency help for excluded self-employed

Proposals to government include letting freelancers and sole traders submitting tax returns for 2019-20 be eligible for self-employed income support

Government Grants

Liverpool launches £9.5m grant fund for ‘excluded’ self-employed

Liverpool joins Wales in offering grants for the self-employed excluded from government Covid-19 financial support

News

Rishi Sunak ignores small business and self-employed in Spending Review

Chancellor blanks calls for cut in national insurance to help businesses scarred by the pandemic and targeted support for excluded self-employed

Government Grants

Rishi Sunak urged to help self-employed company directors

Business groups and experts write to chancellor with workable scheme to help 800,000 company directors excluded from government Covid-19 support

News

City mayors warn of mental health pandemic among self-employed

Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram come together to urge chancellor to help 3m self-employed excluded from government Covid business support.

Government Grants

When and where to apply for the new 80% self-employed grant

Newly self-employed, company directors and part-time self-employed still excluded from third self-employed grant

Government Grants

Nearly half a million self-employed face having universal credit cut

Government set to reintroduce cap on universal credit, bringing self-employed in line with those in full-time work on minimum wage

Tax

1m self-employed face having to pay tax bill larger than what they earnt

First HMRC prepayment deadline for self-employed tax looms in January, based on what freelancers earned pre-Covid

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