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The January cut-off point for your Self Assessment has come and gone, leaving a trail of bewildered freelancers in its wake. How was your experience? Did tax submission leave you cold, as if the weight of the financial year was cleaving your brain in two? You aren’t...
Striking out on an independent venture can net you a comfortable living in an industry you’re passionate about. The problem for first-time freelancers and contractors though is, unfortunately, a practical one: ‘How much do I charge my clients when I’m relatively...
Some principles of your business will never change: the monitoring of incomings and outgoings; tax submissions; collating your transactional evidence through the year. However, the means of doing so are being digitised and simplified, evolving with the pace of our...
Rolling back into the doldrums of January, you may be feeling uninspired by your current work. A frustrating schedule, lack of recognition, being lost in a massive corporate hierarchy… there are many reasons why ennui is afflicting you. Is it time you did something...
While many of us were happily munching and singing, port in hand, over the festive period, a significant amount of people were focused on something else. Tax returns – the scourge of the self-employed – hit home this year, as the BBC reports that thousands of...
If you ask us, the closing curtain of each year causes more stress than succour for the businesspeople of the world. There’s a raft of final payments, client assignments, bills and personal responsibilities to sort out before we can perch our feet up and say, “Well,...
The mince pies are sitting nicely in their half-opened sleeves, and fairy lights are probably looping around your office. Christmas is almost upon us! Hopefully, with the help of Bright Ideas Accountancy, you’ve managed to reign your finances in order, leaving you...
Now is the time to reflect on the year gone by and take stock of our finances. Sitting at your desk, you might find there’s an awful lot of paperwork to sift through, suffocating your organisational skills in a deluge of receipts and bank statements. As much as we...
Taking stock of the year, you’re doubtlessly analysing what went right and what, in hindsight, could have been different. Regardless of the changes, you may have experienced, one thing remains the same as ever – our desire for protecting our finances and maximising...
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