A simple guide through the basics of getting registered and record keeping. Download the PDF now.

Check out this useful guide from Citizen's Advice on how Universal Credit works for the self-employed.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is a new way of reporting property and self-employment income to HMRC. You’ll use software to keep digital records and send Income Tax updates instead of filing a Self Assessment tax return. Download our Quick Start Guide to find out more.

Here's a simple template to log your mileage if you're claiming flat-rate mileage (as opposed to claiming the vehicle/fuel as a business expense). At the time of writing you can claim 45p/mile for the first 10,000 business miles each year and 25p a mile for each mile over that figure. Read more about claiming mileage and other business expenses here https://www.gov.uk/simpler-income-tax-simplified-expenses/vehicles-.

The whole purpose of business is to make money – in our case making money doing something you enjoy! But once that money comes in, we want to make sure it’s not just vanishing before our very eyes.

Here are 5 tips to help with money management in a small business, on top of your ‘usual’ book keeping and recording what comes in and goes out.