Freelancers’ Business Guide ScreenSkills – ITF (London)

Creating a secure financial footing for your freelance career, particularly in difficult economic times, will leave you free to concentrate on being brilliant! This one day workshop shows you how to keep within the regulations and not waste time, whilst making the most of your finances. We’ll take a good look at: how tax works

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Posted on 17 October 2019

Finance for Freelancers (FEU – London)

Workshop content There are some big changes coming up in the way freelancers will deal with the tax office. This workshop aims to get you into the right financial habits before the changes come.   Full of tips, discussion and practical exercises, this workshop will help you understand, organise and plan your finances more successfully.

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Posted on 23 August 2019

Simplifying tax for freelancers and SMEs

You could be forgiven for thinking the government is only interested in Brexit and leadership contests at the moment. But there are other things going on behind the scenes.

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Posted on 17 July 2019

Why our Finance for Freelancers workshop is different

In the run-up to this month’s Finance for Freelancers workshop in London (book here!), I saw an interesting comment on Facebook under BECTU’s ad for the course. The suggestion was that other organisations run free courses on tax, etc., so why bother with ours.

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Posted on 08 July 2019

Video demo: Payslip record for PAYE freelancers

Keeping track of payslips is a bore. This is especially true if you’re the kind of freelancer who moves around a lot, and has bits and pieces of work with lots of different employers. I’ve devised a very simple spreadsheet which collects all your payslip info for the whole tax year in one place.

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Posted on 28 June 2019

Making Tax Digital – FreeAgent interview

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is a hot topic on our courses at the moment. Under current plans, from April 2021 [update 27/9/21 – it’s now from April 2024] sole traders with annual turnover more than £10,000, will have to use special software to report turnover and business expenses every quarter. So that means as they

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Posted on 24 June 2019

Have you got a tax hangover?

If you were one of the many people who left everything to the 31st January tax return deadline, you might now be recovering from what I call the tax hangover. It’s caused by a mixture of adrenaline, that feeling of wooziness because you’re not quite sure if you did everything right, coupled with relief that

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Posted on 12 February 2019

Taking the sting out of 31 Jan tax deadline

You might be vaguely aware that the 31st January is an important deadline for tax affairs. In fact it’s two deadlines:

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Posted on 14 January 2019

Finance for Freelancers (Glasgow)

Creating a secure financial footing for your freelance career, particularly in difficult economic times, will leave you free to concentrate on being brilliant! This one day workshop shows you how to keep within the regulations and not waste time, whilst making the most of your finances. We’ll take a good look at: how tax works

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Posted on 08 January 2019

Finance for Freelancers (Glasgow)

Creating a secure financial footing for your freelance career, particularly in difficult economic times, will leave you free to concentrate on being brilliant! This one day workshop shows you how to keep within the regulations and not waste time, whilst making the most of your finances. We’ll take a good look at: how tax works

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Posted on 08 January 2019