Resources
A selection of great tools, business guides and articles to help make your business a success
Setting Up A Limited Company: A Jargon-Free Guide
Incorporating your company is a shrewd business move for a contractor or freelancer. By setting up a limited company, you can protect more of your hard-earned profits, and minimise risk when dealing...
What Expenses You Can and Can’t Claim
Registering as a limited company can help you minimise your tax burden, provided you go the right way about claiming expenses on your tax return. As such, it’s crucial to understand what you can and...
Understanding Your Corporation Tax Liability
As a limited company, your business is liable for corporation tax, levied on the profits of your company at the end of your financial year. To ensure that you have adequate funds to pay this by the...
Automating Your Bookkeeping Processes With FreeAgent
Contracting and freelancing gives you the power to set your own work hours and rates, to leverage your skills to their full potential. However, keeping track of your finances can be a headache for a...
Do You Really Want Lower Fees From Your Accountant?
Self-employment gives you almost unlimited earning potential, but it also comes at a cost. Unless you want to spend every waking hour at your desk, it’s essential to bring in external support from...
Paying too much through an umbrella company?
Type ‘Umbrella Company’ into Google and you‘ll come across an array of outrageous claims, 90% take home after tax probably the most popular line put forward. In reality most umbrellas won’t get...
Reassuring your IR35 status with a review of your contract and working practices
We’ve written about IR35 an awful lot on this blog, as it’s a tricky piece of tax legislation every contractor should be aware of. In our introduction to IR35 we covered the very basics, but we...
Startup contracting: what you need to know
The latest labour statistics show that self-employment is at an all-time high, 4.66 million people now making a living this way. Tens of thousands take the plunge every month, swelling the ranks of...
What to do when your contractor bookkeeping is a mess
Speak to any seasoned accountant and they’ll tell you that good bookkeeping is essential, keeping track of your financial transactions key to the accounting process. Lose grip of what’s going on...
The good, the bad and the ugly: how to set up your contracting business
Before taking the plunge into contracting you’ll need to dot some i’s and cross a few t’s, picking your legal structure is one of the key jobs that you’ll need to take care of. Everything from your...
Umbrella company expenses to be disallowable in 2016
As Budgets go last year’s wasn’t too kind on the self-employed, the bad and the ugly outweighing the good that came from Osborne’s speech. We saw tinkering to dividend structure, Employment...
How to avoid penalties and fines from missing VAT deadlines
When you first start out in your business endeavor it can be easy to forget the importance of staying on top of your taxation matters – not solely for your payroll and personal income tax, but also...
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