Category: Self-Employment

Heard of the “basis period reform”? Maybe you haven’t, even though much has been written about it. Admittedly,...

A key reason why many sole traders, landlords and others end up paying too much tax is they...

Technology has made starting your own business cheaper, quicker and easier than ever. People of all types do...

Lesley Brown was born in 1961 and grew up in South East London. After living in North London...

It was then Chancellor George Osborne who introduced the High Income Child Benefit Charge (HICBC) in January 2013,...

There are some 1.9m freelancers in the UK and they make up about 46% of the solo self-employed...

A record-breaking 11.7m 2021-2022 Self Assessment tax returns were filed before the midnight 31 January 2023 deadline, according...

Steve Flew is a self-employed oil-sector consultant who lives in the picturesque village of Boat of Garten in...

If you need to file a Self Assessment tax return, you should make sure that you report all...

By now you may (or may not) have heard about Making Tax Digital (MTD), the comprehensive digitisation process...

If you already think you pay too much tax as a sole trader or landlord, you would probably...

Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is reality. It’s a well-known saying – but what does...