New Year’s resolutions are notoriously difficult to maintain past the second week of January. How many times have you told yourself that you’ll go to the gym more this year, drink less alcohol or make and save more money?

Sound like you? Perhaps you are just making the wrong resolutions. Make a commitment to go self-employed in 2016 and watch your other ambitions come true as you reclaim control over your life. 

New research from the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has found that less than half of people who say they’d like to be self-employed are actually working for themselves.

A lack of support and guidance for tasks like budgeting and filing tax returns was highlighted as one of the major barriers stopping would-be self-employed workers.

The national charity also found that the gap between self-employment aspiration and achievement grows larger for adults under the age of 35.

Almost half (48%) of people aged 18-34 said that they would like to be self-employed but only 7% of people in this age bracket work for themselves. 

In November 2015, prior to the release of George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, we wrote to the Chancellor raising our concerns in respect of proposed legislation changes to IR35, travel & subsistence tax relief for contractors and the one month rule that was incorrectly rumoured to being introduced for contractors working through their own limited company.

Today, 9^th December 2015, we have received a reply and are thankful for the time taken in doing so.

Coincidently today is the day when the first draft of the new Finance Bill will be released. This Bill will contain the new legislation.