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- Category: News & Articles
- Tips When Going Self-Employed as a Sole Trader
- Are Your Employee Benefits as Good as You Think?
- Corporation Tax
- Self Assessment
- Understanding VAT: A Guide for Businesses
- Category: Accounting
- What should you look for in a contractor accountant?
- Switching accountants – when should you move and how easy is it?
- Common Self Assessment tax return errors to avoid
- Payments on account – why is my first Self Assessment tax bill so high?
- The Unrecognised Benefits of an Online Accountant
- Keep Bookkeeping Nightmares At Bay With These Best Practices
- Bookkeeping and Accounting: What’s The Difference?
- The Biggest Blunders For Contractor Accounting
- 5 Reasons Why We Recommend FreeAgent Bookkeeping Software
- Is Your Bookkeeping Due A Spring Clean?
- 5 Ways To Become A Better Bookkeeper In 2017
- New Year, New Business? Deciding To Go Freelance
- Save Yourself From Self-Assessment Misery This January
- Essential New Year’s Resolutions For The Self-Employed
- How To Avoid Cash Flow Problems
- Bad Bookkeeping: A Nightmare That Never Ends
- Why Partner With Bright Ideas Accountancy?
- Bright Ideas Accountancy Is Up For An Award!
- Stuck In A Bookkeeping Rut? Let’s Dig You Out
- How FreeAgent Solves RTI Trouble
- Why Your Contracting Bookkeeping Needs To Be in The Cloud
- What To Do When Your Contractor Bookkeeping Is A Mess
- Why a Spreadsheet System is the Worst Way to Manage Your Bookkeeping
- Automating Your Bookkeeping Processes with FreeAgent
- Contractor Bookkeeping Made Simple: Tidy Your Accounts
- How to avoid penalties and fines from missing VAT deadlines
- Why Bookkeeping Goes Out the Window During Major Projects
- Did You Know that a Better Accountant was Possible?
- Stop Juggling Receipts: Automate Your Accounts with FreeAgent
- The Dreaded Task of Bookkeeping!
- Should I move my accounts to the cloud?
- Do I need an Accountant?
- Category: Contracting
- 5 Ways the Self Employed can Boost Their Pensions
- Managing Your Income as a Contractor or Freelancer
- How Much to Charge as a Freelancer
- 5 Ways To Source Freelance Work
- How To Solve Potential Problems When Working From Home
- 3 Financial Secrets Of Working From Home
- Breaking Down Contractor Insurance: What’s It All About?
- Are Long-Term Freelance Projects Worth It?
- What To Consider When Moving To Contracting From Permanent Employment
- Freelancer & Contracting Invoices: The Basics
- The Pros And Cons Of Partnering With A Co-Founder
- Self-Employed? Follow These Tips When Applying For A Mortgage
- 5 Important Things To Look For Before Signing A Contract
- How To Handle Difficult Clients
- Counting The Cost Of Your Business Plan
- How To Handle A Client Rate Increase
- How To Sell Yourself In The Self-Employed Market
- 4 Pension Planning Tips For Freelancers & Contractors
- A Solid Investment: What Clients Look for in a Contractor
- Counting Your Mileage As A Freelancer Or Contractor
- 5 Tips For Setting Up A Retainer
- Setting Your Rates As A Contractor Or Freelancer
- How Do Umbrella Companies Work?
- What Percentage Of Your Pay Should You Be Taking Home?
- Setting Up Your Pension As A Contractor Or Freelancer
- How To Secure A Mortgage As A Self-Employed Professional
- 4 Things Every Contractor & Freelancer Should Outsource
- Are You Ready to Become Self-Employed?
- Insurance & Legal Protection for Your Contracting Business
- How to Find New Contracts When Your Current One Ends
- Why We Only Work with Contractors and Freelancers
- Been Made Redundant and Decided to Go Contracting? What Now?
- Contractors and Freelancers: How Should You Pay Yourself?
- Paying Too Much Through an Umbrella Company?
- Startup Contracting: What You Need to Know
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: How to Set Up Your Contracting Business
- Top tips for new contractors
- How Should You Pay Yourself?
- 3 Ways to Fix the Cash Flow Problem for your Contracting Business
- Can Freelancers and Contractors Take Holidays?
- Should freelancers and contractors maintain a LinkedIn page?
- Five Tips for Success on Freelancing Sites
- Mortgages for contractors
- Which Business Insurance do I need as a Contractor?
- Costly mistakes when starting out contracting
- Tax Tips for Contractors
- Category: Expenses
- Christmas parties and summer events – what are the tax rules?
- Less than Half of Self-Employed Workers Use Simplified Mileage Rates
- Tax Relief Claims on Employee Expenses Changed
- Clever Ways To Manage Your Travel Expenses
- The 6 Most Unusual Freelancer Expenses
- How To Claim Tax Relief For Your Home Office
- The Price of Ignorance: Expenses You May Be Claiming Wrong
- What Expenses You Can and Can’t Claim
- Expenses Guide
- Category: IR35
- Who decides your IR35 status – you or your client?
- A brief history of IR35 and the off-payroll working rules
- IR35 – Where Are We Now?
- How Will The Upcoming Private Sector IR35 Reform Impact You?
- 4 Things You Need To Know About IR35
- What is IR35? How Does it Work?
- Reassuring Your IR35 Status: Contract & Working Review
- What You Need to Know about IR35: Employee or a Limited Company?
- IR35
- Category: Limited Companies
- Companies are Being Warned to Comply with New Rules
- Company Size Thresholds to Increase in the UK from April
- Why You Must Keep Companies House Data Up-to-date
- The Complex World of Business Structures Explained
- Routes To Self-Employment: Which One Should You Choose?
- 4 Red Flags For Limited Company Finances
- 4 Pitfalls To Avoid When Setting Up A Limited Company
- Umbrella To Limited: Making The Switch
- The Big Question: Is It Time To Set Up A Limited Company?
- Umbrella vs. Limited: The Great Debate
- Setting Up A Limited Company: A Jargon-Free Guide
- What Limited Company Expenseses Can You Claim?
- Umbrella vs Limited
- Category: News
- HMRC Aims to Help Prevent Scam Emails
- Smaller Employers Should be Careful with Salary Advance Schemes
- Action Needed for a UK Pension Regime Fit for the Next Generation
- Changes to Umbrella Company Payments could Reduce Wages
- Trump’s Tariffs Hit the Markets – What Should You Do?
- Five Years on From Covid – What Have We Learnt?
- PAYE or Payroll Errors? You Could Face a Penalty
- Interest Rates Fall – What Does it Mean for You?
- Divorces Rise in January, Here’s How to Make it Less Painful
- Keep Good Records to Avoid a Fine from HMRC
- DWP Makes Slow Progress on Parents’ Pension Redress
- Retiring Overseas? Then Think About Your Pension
- The Best Way to Spend Money on Your Summer Holiday Abroad
- How Do 18-year-olds Access Their Child Trust Fund?
- New Labour Government Reveals Plans in King’s Speech
- Businesses Look to Increase Home Working
- HMRC App Helps with Student Finance Applications
- Tipping Act Code of Practice to Bring Fairness to Employees
- UK Export Finance Doubles Limit to £10m for Traders
- Exporters Must Make Declarations on a New System from March 30
- The Cost of Divorce – What to Do if You Decide to Split Up
- Mortgage Lenders Start a Price War – What This Means for You
- Dealing with a debt hangover from Christmas? Do this.
- Big Plans for Private and State Pensions
- Advance Valuation Rulings On Imported Goods
- Could You Have Money Sitting in Lost or Forgotten Accounts?
- New UK Internal Market Scheme Launches
- Redundancies Expected to Rise this Year – What You Need to Know
- Back to Work Means it’s Time for Business Development
- ECL Now Open Online for Registrations and Returns
- BoE Base Rate Rises – Has Your Business Account Kept Up?
- Keep National Insurance Numbers in Apple Wallets Now
- Base Rate Rises Again – What it Means for Business
- Can Hybrid Working Boost Your Business?
- Pension Changes Make Retirement Saving More Attractive
- Budget Round-Up – What’s Changed & How It Might Affect You
- Common E-Commerce Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- EU Excise Duty Changes Now Live – What It Means for Your Business
- New Year New Me, Time to Review Your Financial Plan with Bright Ideas?
- What Does the Market Volatility Mean for You?
- How to Protect Your Business in a Recession
- U-turns & Changes – What Happened to the Mini-Budget Announcements?
- Business News England
- COVID-19: The Support Available
- Picking A Pension & Making The Most Of It
- Thinking Of Hiring Your First Employee?
- 4 Easy Ways To Save Time On Your Finances
- The Dos & Don’ts of Chasing Late Payments
- Category: Tax
- Budget 2025 Explained for Contractors, Freelancers & Limited Companies
- Around 600,000 HMRC Penalties Paid by People Owing No Tax in 5 Years
- Parents of Teenagers can Extend Child Benefit Claim Online
- HMRC Surveys Suggest Job Perk Changes are on the Horizon
- New Pension Schemes Bill to Benefit 20 million Workers
- Record Number of Self-Assessments Sent in First Week of Tax Year
- MPs Call on HMRC to Address Challenges in Tax Admin
- Tax Simplification Measures – Do They Go Far Enough?
- Extra Steps Needed to Calculate Capital Gains Tax
- Inheritance Tax Receipts Up £800m in a Year – How to Beat the Bill
- New Rules from April for Pension Scheme Returns – Are You Ready?
- 1.1m Missed the January 31 Deadline – Can You Appeal a Penalty?
- Business Compliance with HMRC Costs Firms £15.4 billion a Year
- Still Time to Maximise Your End of Tax Year Planning
- 25,000 People Filed Tax Returns on New Year’s Day
- Stamp Duty Thresholds to Fall to Previous Levels from April 1st
- Mixed-Use Property with Stables Pays Less SDLT
- HMRC’s New Basis Period Reform May Bring Higher Tax Bills This January
- Scammers Hit Self-Assessments – Here’s What to Look For
- Do You Need to Pay a Simple Assessment Tax Bill This January?
- IHT Thresholds Frozen to 2030 and Pensions in by 2027
- HMRC’s Gifts for the Employer’s Christmas party
- National Insurance Increases for Employers from April 2025
- First Labour Budget 2024 – the Changes Announced
- New Rules on Tipping Mean Staff Will Get Every Penny
- Just Six Months Left to Top Up State Pension Back to 2006
- Rules on Fraudulent Payments Change from October
- Autumn Budget 2024 – Round-Up!
- Corporation Tax Reminders Will No Longer be Sent
- How to Deal with an Estate on Death as Lifetime Gift Clawbacks Rise
- Nearly £57m in Overpaid Pension Tax Refunded in Q2
- MTD to Expand to Income Tax in 2026 – Get Ready!
- Changing VAT Details Must Now be Done Online
- How to Deal with VAT on School Fees from January 2025
- Bona Vacantia – What Happens When an Estate is Unclaimed?
- Want to Avoid Fines from HMRC? Here’s How
- Why Stamp Duty Land Tax Might Need to be Reformed
- Inheritance Tax at Record Levels, but Business Relief Can Help
- Everyone Should Check Their Tax Code Now
- Employees Paid on a Thursday or Friday Could Face Extra Tax in 2024/25
- 650,000 Extra Pensioners Pay Tax for the First Time this Month
- The End of the P11D is Expected in 2026
- Cryptocurrency Gains Must be Reported on Self-Assessments
- Furnished Holiday Lettings Tax Rules Set to Change in 2025
- Budget Changes and What They Mean for You
- Make Sure Your Will is Up-to-Date and You Have Planned for IHT
- End of Tax Year Planning Starts Now – Use Up Any Allowances
- Spring Budget Unveiled: A Glimpse into Key Fiscal Measures
- Child Benefit Claims Can Now be Made Online
- Rumours Circulate Over HMRC Crackdown on eBay and Etsy Sales
- Could You be Better Off by Claiming Marriage Allowance?
- Self-Assessment Deadline is Looming Again
- Autumn Statement NICs Changes in Detail
- Chancellor Announces Tax Cuts and Business Boosts
- Autumn 2023 Budget – The Perfect Breakdown
- Tax Advice Error Could Impact Your State Pension
- How to Spot Tax Avoidance Schemes
- Alcohol Duty Changes – What it means for Pubs, Stores & Small Brewers
- Deed of Assignments Won’t be Treated as Nominations for Income Tax
- Pension Tax Overpayments – £56m Returned in Q2 2023 & How to Claim
- What Employee Perks Will the Taxman Help You Fund?
- Reduce Your Company Tax bill by Doing a Good Turn
- New Tax Regime for Sole Traders & Partnerships Starts
- Self-Assessment Thresholds Change for PAYE Workers
- P11D and P11D(b) Forms Must be Filed Online by July 6
- How You Can Benefit from Salary Sacrifice
- Deadline to Catch Up on National Insurance Contributions Extended
- Check Your PAYE Code is Correct for this Tax Year
- Make the Most of the New Tax Year by Acting Now
- More People to Pay Highest Tax as Top Threshold Falls in Budget
- Childcare Benefits with a Sting in the Tail for High Earners
- MTD for ITSA delayed to April 2026 – what does this mean for you?
- New VAT Penalty Regime – The Changes Explained
- Self-Assessment Late Payment – What Happens if You Miss the Deadline
- Self-Assessment – Now is the Time to Get Your Tax Return Sorted
- Tax Year End – Get Your Accounts Ready Before the Rush
- Autumn Statement – What You Need to Know About Upcoming Changes
- Changes to Corporation Tax Filing in September – What You Need to Know
- Mini-Budget: What it Means for You and Your Finances
- Self-Assessment – It’s Getting to That Time Again
- Spring Statement 2022: How It Impacts Small Businesses Like Yours
- An Underwhelming Autumn Budget? How The Announcements Affect You
- Summer Statement 2020: How Will The Announcements Affect You?
- Spring Budget 2020: How Will The Announcements Impact You?
- Making Tax Digital (MTD) Is Almost Here – What It Means For You
- How To Shape Up Your Earnings Model For The New Tax Year
- 5 Mistakes That Can Sink Your Self Assessment Tax Return
- Self Assessment Blunders To Steer Clear Of
- How To Budget For Your Tax Payments
- Making Tax Digital: Where Are We Now?
- Understanding Changes to the Flat Rate VAT Scheme
- Optimal Salary And Dividend Payments For 2017/18
- Becoming VAT Registered as a Contractor
- How Does A Tax Investigation Work?
- Making Tax Digital – What You Need To Know
- Do You Have Enough Set Aside To Pay Your Taxes?
- Understanding Your Corporation Tax Liability
- How to Improve Your Company’s Tax Liability
- Do You Have Enough Money Set Aside to Pay Your Taxes?
- Contracting 101: Why Staying on Top of Taxes Will Help Your Reputation
- Category: Resources
- The Most Popular Question: How Should Contractors Pay Themselves?
- IR35 Explained – Inside vs Outside IR35 for Contractors
- How to Set Your Contractor Rate
- VAT Registration for Contractors and Small Businesses
- What Expenses Can I Claim For?
- Next Steps When Setting Up a Limited Company
- Should You Make Your Spouse a Shareholder?
- Your First Contract: Tips for Getting Hired Fast
- Category: Video Guides
- Category: Written Guides
- What is IR35? A Guide for Limited Company Contractors
- Why You Need an Accountant Who Understands Contractors
- The Contractor’s Guide to Claimable Expenses
- Should I Use an Umbrella Company or My Own Limited Company?
- Jumping Ship: From Employee to Contractor
- How to Budget for Tax as a New Contractor
- How Much Should I Charge as a Contractor?
- Guide to Staying on Top of HMRC Compliance as a First-Time Contractor
- A Simple Guide to Setting Up Your Ltd Company
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