Am I a sole trader or a limited company?
What is a sole trader? A sole trader is a person who is trading and isn’t a separate legal entity. Are you doing any activity that shows you want work (advertising) or with the aim of making money...
View Article7 Step Plan To Making Your Tax Return Easy
Catch up with my guest post on KindredHQ about how to make your tax return easy. ‘Uh-oh. The tax return elephant is in the room again. I have good news. Doing your self assessment tax return isn’t...
View ArticleThe Tax Return Toolkit is here!
Are you a sole trader or director doing your own tax return? Do you have an accountant and want help doing the paperwork they need? Do you want a large serving of anti-procrastination juice and a piece...
View ArticleCan I do my own tax return?
Yes! (usually) You’re a one man band, you freelance, you’re a micro business owner. Can you do your own self assessment tax return? Let’s break it down into limited company directors and sole traders...
View ArticleCake And Tax: How To Do Your Tax Return In 7 Easy Steps
Cake and tax? Is there a better combination? (Ok, apart from the tax) As part of the Women In Business telesummit by Dina Behrman Communications, I’m speaking on Cake And Tax: How To Do Your Tax Return...
View ArticleWhy It’s OK Not To Panic When Your Tax Return Is Due
Doing your tax return right before deadline? It needs to be done quickly, and staying calm will help you get the wretched thing done faster. It may feel difficult to be relaxed but it helps get the job...
View ArticlePage 1 On Google For ‘Tax Return Support’: What Organic SEO Can Do For Your...
Today I had a lovely surprise: One Man Band Accounting is on page 1 on Google for ‘tax return support’. I was astonished as I only do organic SEO. I asked Martin Oxby of Summit Web Solutions to check...
View ArticleWhy Cake Is The Key Tool For Your Blogging Tax Return
You’re a professional blogger or you want to be. You enjoy cake. You don’t enjoy doing your tax return or accounts. You prefer to have your cake and eat it. You want a profitable successful blog on...
View ArticleTax Return Balm: Your Natural Stress Relief
Tax returns can feel overwhelmingly stressful. Whether it’s your first tax return, you’ve done it before yourself rather uneasily, or you have new income to enter and don’t know what to do with it, it...
View ArticleHow To Avoid Tax Return Mistakes
Tax returns are not high on our list of fabulous ways of spending our life. Yes, for me too. Being a tax return coach for cake-loving freelancers doesn’t mean that I magically love doing my own return....
View ArticleFreelance Expenses Roundup
January is a time when even the best of us need fast help. Here’s a roundup of my expenses posts, with a little help with doing your first tax return and the 3 P’s (procrastination, panic and...
View ArticleTax Return Roundup
January is a time when even the best of us need fast help. Here’s a roundup of my tax return posts, with a little help with procrastination, panic and productivity, and some relaxation and relief. If...
View ArticleThe Importance Of Shoes When Starting A Business
I’d like to introduce Lizzie Cheeld, virtual PA to creative types (like me), who guest posts for me today about how important shoes are in her newly minted business. It’s incredible I haven’t yet...
View ArticleHow To Save Your Tax Return So You Can Find It
You’re diligent about saving your self assessment tax return to your laptop or computer every year. You know how important it is to have that file, and to have at least 2 backups, in different places....
View ArticleNEW: How To Do Your Tax Return ecourse
NEW: How To Do Your Tax Return ecourse I intended to launch my Start Your Business ecourse this December, but I thought given the time of year, it was kinda obvious to offer my new How To Do Your Tax...
View ArticleHow To Use Essential Oils For Your Tax Return
I LOVE essential oils. It’s like inhaling nature. In fact, essential oils are one of my little secrets for why my tax return is done by the end of the summer and not in January (yes, it used to be...
View ArticleHow To Record Foreign Currency Payments in Paypal
Foreign currencies. American dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, Euro, Yen, Krona, Rand, Rupee, Baht, Peso…. (even sterling, if you didn’t know that it’s UK £, one of the world’s main...
View ArticleWhich Local Marketing Expenses Are Tax-Deductible?
Local marketing is a core marketing strategy, especially if your business is mostly face to face or geographically based. Which expenses are tax-deductible though? 😉 I’m going to take you through the...
View ArticleHow To Record Affiliate Payments
Today I want to talk to you about how to record affiliate payments. What I’m talking about here is you being an affiliate for businesses and companies where you’ve used their products, you’ve used...
View ArticleHow Long Do I Need To Keep My Records?
Today I want to talk to you about how long you need to keep your records. You need to keep records for your business and today I’m sharing how long you need to keep them for (before you can go...
View ArticleAre Parts For A Gifted Laptop Tax-Deductible?
Today I want to talk to you about whether parts for a gifted laptop (when you didn’t buy it) (or other capital item) are tax-deductible. I’ll be sharing with you: What is a repair? When is a repair is...
View ArticleAre Bank Charges For Currency Conversion Tax-Deductible?
We are receiving payments in different currencies because it’s an international world now. More and more of us are even trading in a different currency to our own. Are those bank charges for currency...
View ArticleWhat Is Cash Basis?
Today I want to talk to you about cash basis. As part of my How to Do Your Own Tax Return course, I have a Q&A every month. Most months this is a question that comes up, so I thought it was about...
View ArticleIs Interest On An ISA Tax Free?
Today I want to talk to you about tax free ISA interest on your tax return. What is an ISA? Do you need to declare ISA interest? Is interest on an ISA tax free? And if you believe video needs to be...
View ArticleCan You Go Back To Sole Trader From Limited Company?
Today I want to talk to you about going back to a sole trader when you’re a limited company. I’ll be sharing with you: Can you go back to being a sole trader when you’re a limited company? How easy is...
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