Self-Employed Support

Like the CJRS scheme for employers the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) has been extended to September 2021and details of claims for the fourth grant have now been released. This fourth grant covers February, March and April 2021. There will then be a fifth grant...

Businesses eligible for the first Self Employment grant must make their claim by Monday 13th July 2020.   At the end of May the government announced that the scheme would be extended, with a second and final payment being made in August 2020.   The deadline of 13th July...

HMRC update their Guidance on the SEISS scheme.   A summary from the HMRC website guidance:   Who can claim? You can claim if you are a self-employed individual or a member of a partnership and: you carry on a trade which has been adversely affected by coronavirus you traded...

Like the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for employers the initial HMRC guidance on the grant scheme to support the self-employed and members in partnerships was also very sketchy. In outline the Self-Employed Income Support Scheme allows the self-employed to claim 80% of their average profits for...

The Government has stepped in to provide support to certain areas of the economy but even with this becoming available in the coming weeks, some of us will need advice on how to survive the lock down. Here are our thoughts. Apply for all Government...