Working outside of the UK, depending on where you land of course, certainly has some tempting potential benefits – sun, sea and sand, apart from the pay packet. According to a survey by Experis, almost half of IT and finance professionals in the UK have seriously considered moving abroad to work and it will have Read more

Let’s face it; no one really likes to pay tax from their hard-earned money. It’s one of those things in life that we accept and pay – funding the country’s vital services, from the NHS to our children’s education – but wouldn’t it be great if the money came from somewhere else instead? There is a fine line however between illegally not paying tax and deliberately choosing to not pay some of it; Harry Redknapp is particularly familiar with the difference, with a court case for alleged tax evasion currently underway where his financial activities are being heavily scrutinised by the British legal system.

Contracts can be complicated documents.  Simply misreading just one section could land your business in hot-water and potentially make you pay more in the long term, or worse still, run the risk of not being paid at all.  Having worked in recruitment for more than 25 years, both as a user and provider of invoice Read more

Where there’s a will there’s a way….here Simplicity MD David Thornhill explores the opportunities available to new start up recruitment agencies who don’t want to be strangled by the ever growing amount of red tape facing businesses in the UK. Tune in your TV or radio and you will be presented with a tale of Read more

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it Read more

Clearing up confusion and cleaning up your act in cash flow services. Some may find it surprising that invoice debt funding services have been in the UK in earnest for 40 years. Up to the 1960s what I now define below as Factoring was about the only game in town. The market has developed out Read more

In my many years of experience in this industry, and having done many such deals, I have become quite blasé about invoice finance deals.  I have learned from mistakes about how careful you should be to ensure that the total costs are understood, and what value for money you should expect.  Throughout my career, I Read more