1) At the end of your first year as a sole trader, you have to pay 100% of the tax you owe on what you made the previous year. At the end of the second year, you have to pay all that PLUS 50% of the tax you'll owe for the next (current) year. No one mentions this ONCE.
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2) Because you're paying tax on a total amount of money you haven't yet earned, you have to guess. This is called making a payment on account, and you have to pay 50% on Jan 31st, with your other payments, and 50% on July 31st. You might be conservative in your guess. Don't be.
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3) If you guess too low, they will charge you interest on what you *should* have paid. So you either guess too high & overpay your tax, then have to wait for HRMC to pay it back, OR underguess & have them charge you interest for the difference when you finally file for that year.
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4) Sometimes if you pay on time they will just randomly charge you late payment fees. It is up to you to keep a check on what they are charging you and query this, because it can add up (to about 400 quid, in my experience). The onus is on you to prove you paid on time.
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5) Sometimes when you file your return, you'll log on a week later to pay and find two entirely different numbers given for what you owe. Then you ring them and they give you a third, totally different number. Pay the one they give you & get it in writing to prove what they said.
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6) There are a lot of things you can claim as expenses. For instance, if you're a writer, your expenses can include books, film tickets, travel to meetings, food for when you're travelling for events, your phone contract, a new laptop, even clothes for events.
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7) If you work from home, you can charge for a portion of your heating bills, broadband, even part of your rent/mortgage. Accurate information around these last two points is hard to come by—I recommend
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8) You shouldn't need to file the specifics of your tax return, just the big numbers. However, in the event that you are audited, you will need to have kept ALL YOUR RECEIPTS. Again,
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9) It's best if you have an entirely separate bank account just for your 'business' (i.e. freelancing) stuff. It just makes things a lot easier down the line if you do end up being audited—or even just for working out your expenses.
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10) The single best thing you can do IMO is to have a 'tax' account, into which you pay 20% of everything you earn. Don't *just* save the amount over the tax-paying threshold, because you have to pay National Insurance, etc. Just put in 20% of everything that you earn.
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11) This way, you should always have slightly too much in that account, which acts as a buffer for any unexpected charges. If you jump up into a higher bracket you'll obviously have to start putting a higher percentage into that tax account. But still, it helps.
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