Working Freelance

1840dsgn · Jul 3rd, 2007, 12:22

Hi,

I'm a student in England, and to earn some extar money I'm thinking of doing a few pieces of freelance design work for various people I come across who need my services!

I am just wondering the law around this. I would be very grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction or give me some basic information of the laws around tax, registration and other such things.

Thanks

Mike

VanessaJW · Jul 3rd, 2007, 17:29

I would have thought that initially it would be easiest to register as self-employed, Read this it explains how to do it and what you need to do for paying tax etc. Once you're set up with all that, you can then just invoice people for work you do. Hope this helps!

sannbe · Jul 3rd, 2007, 20:01

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student in England, and to earn some extar money

Full time student/part time(for now)web designer. I don't know about English laws, but part time means just that...In the US you don't have to get anything if you work part time out of your home. It is only when you establish a full time business. For example, my sister runs a bookstore dealing in collectable books. She is required to have a resellers license and a tax id... Before that she sold out of the home and had neither the license or the id....because it was part time from her reqular job.

I don't know if this is any help. You do need to do some research about differences if work is full or part time.

VanessaJW · Jul 3rd, 2007, 21:42

In England if you are doing any kind of paid work, part-time or full-time, from home or not, you have to register, either as a company, or just as a self-employed individual (which I believe would be the best option here initially). You don't have to actually pay any tax unless your income goes over a certain amount, but you still must register.

VanessaJW · Jul 3rd, 2007, 21:51

Just thinking about it some more Mike, you're in Canterbury, you can pop into the Inland Revenue office on St George's Place (opposite the cinema, know where I mean?), I think they have certain times where you can just pop in and speak to someone for advice, and do whatever forms are necessary at the same time. In the back of my mind is something saying that there might be slightly different rules for students, so best to get proper professional advice from the Inland Revenue rather than listening to me!

1840dsgn · Jul 4th, 2007, 09:14

Not entirely sure where you mean but I've been here for 18years so I'm sure I'll find it! Thanks for the advice I'll pop in there sometime.