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Is Your Bookkeeping Due A Spring Clean?
April is right around the corner, and with it comes a new tax year. For freelancers and contractors, the end of the financial year can be incredibly stressful – especially when the final figures...
5 Tips For Setting Up A Retainer
Freelancing can sometimes feel like a slow walk along a beach: you come across dozens of shells, but only a couple stand out, flashing their colours in the sun and fitting well in your hand. By this...
Breaking The 2017 Spring Budget Down For Contractors & Freelancers
With a flourish, our Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered his red briefcase to Parliament, setting out the government’s economic plan for 2017. The Conservatives have previously been in support of...
How To Claim Tax Relief For Your Home Office
A freelancer or contractor, having finally made their leap to independence, will probably begin their journey at home, with a steaming cup of coffee at 9am most mornings. It’s a no-brainer – you...
4 Things You Need To Know About IR35
Since 2000, the UK government has been voracious on the issue of ‘disguised employment’ i.e. contractors who work for a single client full-time, yet who manage to evade typical bands of employment...
Fallen Out Of Love With Your Accountancy Firm?
Business is not a fairy-tale. The ending certainly might be, assuming you break into untold riches and gain industry stature. Before that, though, you might hit a snag along the way – one of which...
How To Maintain A Strong Relationship With Your Accountant
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us, promoting shows of affection for those that matter to our lives. Yet, beyond treating your partner to a reminder of what makes you click, we suggest taking a look...
Lessons To Learn From The Self Assessment Comedown
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...
Setting Your Rates As A Contractor Or Freelancer
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...
5 Ways To Become A Better Bookkeeper In 2017
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...
New Year, New Business? Deciding To Go Freelance
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...
Save Yourself From Self-Assessment Misery This January
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...
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