Guide to Freelancing
How to set up as a freelancer?
Becoming successfully self-employed is a lot easier if you’re on top of your business structure. 3 min
IT and tech news and guides
Guide to Freelancing
Guide to Freelancing
How do I start freelancing?
The key steps to take to get a self-employed venture off the ground, up and running. 5 min
Freelancer Finances
What is Capital Gains Tax and when do I need to pay it?
An overview for freelancers on when CGT is due; how to pay it, and how to get relief. 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
How to pay yourself as a freelancer with a limited company
The numbers you should crunch to reveal your take-home pay when running your own company as a freelancer. 5 min
Freelancer News
Pandemic accelerates moonlighting, as one in five become 'side-hustlers'
Freelancing gets its own shot in its arm, from permies both fed up from furlough and creative since covid. 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
The first 5 steps to Self-Employment guide
Becoming a freelancer comes with many decisions and matters to manage, like your own tax affairs. Here is our guide to self-employment and the factors to take into consideration. 4 min
Freelancer News
Freelancing in the UK in 2021: a market overview
The self-employed are on a knife edge. Fragile from covid, ready to lead the recovery, but impeded by government. 4 min
IR35
Freelancers' Questions: Can I control a sales freelancer with set targets?
'One objective, even six objectives is fine, but the self-employed must be left to their own devices to hit them.' 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
Is this Intellectual Property clause suitable for my design client and me?
Legal aid for freelancer whose ‘pretty standard’ terms are stopping a client from commissioning him. 5 min
Freelancer Finances
Self-employed freelancers: how to calculate your take-home pay
Revealed: the numbers sole traders need to crunch to show how much money they can pocket. 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
Can I freelance in the UK while my partner is on a skilled worker visa?
Fortunately for an Italian couple, the small print of his visa permits her to join him in their big transition. 4 min
Freelancer Finances
Can I claim for Working Tax Credit when self-employed?
Working Tax Credit is a type of benefit designed to top up low income for people working in the UK, find out if you qualify. 3 min
Freelancer Finances
What is form P11D and when do I need to use it?
Everything independent workers need to know about a form that reports benefits and expenses to HMRC. 4 min
Guide to Freelancing
New template contract for freelance services handed to self-employed
Download FreelanceUK’s expert-authored legal agreement, and make it your own for freelancing. 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
Freelancers' Questions: Can I freelance from India for UK companies?
Accountant tots up extra cost if an Indian freelancer becomes a company, plus a few ‘must-dos,’ regardless. 3 min
Guide to Freelancing
Freelancers' Questions: Should I use an umbrella company instead?
Having just one end-user, and planning to work for them indefinitely, smacks of PAYE work. 4 min
Freelancer Finances
Tax Rates and allowances 2021/22 for freelancers
Here are the main tax rates and allowances for 2021/22 that the self-employed/freelancer community need to be aware of 3 min
