The Entrepreneur’s Guide to the Invoicing Galaxy

You can work through university without falling behind on your degree. What matters is who sets your hours and whether you can cut back during exams. Here are ten jobs that fit a busy timetable, plus what to check on pay, tax and your visa.

The VAT threshold and rates do not move in 2027, but almost everything around them does: higher late payment penalties from April, VAT back on electricity and energy-saving installs, marketplaces collecting VAT from October and a confirmed start date for e-invoicing. Here is the 2027 calendar for VAT-registered businesses and those close to the threshold.

Payments on account are the part of Self Assessment that catches most sole traders off guard: two advance payments based on last year’s bill, due 31 January and 31 July. Here is how they work in 2027, how to lower them legally and what the 2029 reform will change.

Statutory family pay rises again in April 2027 and the Employment Rights Act brings three new protections for parents during the year. Here is what employees, employers and the self-employed need to know.