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# Self-employed

All time
Opinion: Entrepreneurs with a disability need support to compete - and it's just not there
Eddie Hennessy
6 Jun 2020
12.3k
31
Explainer: Here are the payments you're entitled to if your income is impacted by the coronavirus
24 Mar 2020
88.5k
55
Government to go ahead with plans for self-employed to access jobseeker's payments
28 Jun 2019
17.5k
44
What will Budget 2019 mean for those earning around €50,000?
9 Oct 2018
39.5k
28
What Budget 2019 means for someone earning around €20,000
9 Oct 2018
30.1k
21
Claims about bogus self-employment in construction 'grossly exaggerated'
28 Jan 2018
16.5k
13
More than 27,000 fathers have taken paternity leave so far
8 Nov 2017
12.9k
49
Your PRSI will now let you get a free scale and polish
28 Oct 2017
143k
39
Self-employed? Revenue has given you more time to pay your tax bill thanks to Storm Ophelia
26 Oct 2017
23.5k
20
What Budget 2018 means for someone earning around €20,000
10 Oct 2017
19.1k
26
How the illusion of being self-employed leaves thousands of Irish workers unprotected
29 Jul 2017
32.6k
37
Poll: Should self-employed people be entitled to Jobseeker’s Benefit?
2 May 2017
34.3k
72
Self-employed would 'pay more tax if they got extra benefits in return'
2 May 2017
9.6k
33
"Not Brexit-proof" - there's a deal of good news for the self-employed today, but is it enough?
11 Oct 2016
8.2k
Could the self-employed be about to get equality on social welfare?
26 Mar 2015
21.7k
89
'Opening a business is risky. It's time self-employed people had a safety net'
7 Feb 2015
11.4k
28
'Bosses need to be treated equally to - if not better than - employees'
20 Jan 2015
14.7k
26
'Dear Joan: Today, I sat in a dole office and cried to a complete stranger through a glass partition'
Anonymous
9 Jan 2015
38.3k
400
Self-employed contractors are underpaying millions in tax
13 Jun 2014
19.3k
68
Recovering from the rains: Fishing industry battles on
13 Apr 2014
6.7k
9
Self-employed treated like "second-class citizens" in social welfare system - ISME
27 Mar 2014
15.3k
68
Pay-and-file tax deadline won't change next year, 2015 date could be earlier though
20 Nov 2013
6.8k
6
Two-year income tax exemption for unemployed who set up business
15 Oct 2013
6.7k
43
Woman in home birth case faced with €10,000 legal bill
6 Sep 2013
26.3k
266
'Restrictive' criteria denying jobseekers access to support schemes
31 Aug 2013
9.0k
52
McIlroy to set up his own management group
17 May 2013
2.7k
18
Oireachtas committee considers access to welfare for self-employed
3 Oct 2012
5.9k
38
Self employed tradespeople warned about hiding income
19 Sep 2012
8.3k
35
Reform to self-employed PRSI contributions could be "too expensive"
24 Aug 2012
4.6k
20
Column: 'Self-employed people need a safety net too'
Patricia Callan
31 May 2012
83
43
Report: Hard times for self-employed
3 May 2012
2.3k
24
Column: Self-employed people are the recession’s real victims
Brendan Dempsey
27 Aug 2011
169
100
Budget 2011: Bumper payday for self-employed high earners
8 Dec 2010
2.2k
State to fund maternity leave for self-employed
5 Aug 2010
500