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freelancing with others under one name
Hi everyone, I'm new to this.
I'm wondering if anyone can give me advice, I don't seem to get very far with speaking to the inland revenue so I thought I'd ask real people.
My situation is difficult to explain but I'm sure it's not complicated in reality. I'm wanting to form a sort of collective with two other people so that we can all bring in potential business and share the workload. I don't want to do this on a permanent basis, just maybe every now and then when I'm strapped for cash, because I would like to possibly do it in the evenings and weekends if I get a full time job. We want to be able to invoice clients under a joint name and to share the payment how we choose. I don't want this to be a fully fledged company and don't want to deal with being liable for anything. It's purely a way of working for potentially big clients on one off projects as a group of freelancers essentially. Is this at all possible? I hope I've made sense. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
I'm wondering if anyone can give me advice, I don't seem to get very far with speaking to the inland revenue so I thought I'd ask real people.
My situation is difficult to explain but I'm sure it's not complicated in reality. I'm wanting to form a sort of collective with two other people so that we can all bring in potential business and share the workload. I don't want to do this on a permanent basis, just maybe every now and then when I'm strapped for cash, because I would like to possibly do it in the evenings and weekends if I get a full time job. We want to be able to invoice clients under a joint name and to share the payment how we choose. I don't want this to be a fully fledged company and don't want to deal with being liable for anything. It's purely a way of working for potentially big clients on one off projects as a group of freelancers essentially. Is this at all possible? I hope I've made sense. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers.
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Messages count : 1Likes count : 0Registration : 12 May 2009I think this is a great idea, in fact I've done it myself. My question to you is, why do you have to invoice under a common name? Why not have the person who sourced or took the lead in the project do the billing and then outsource parts of the work to the rest of the group? That way you are still individuals from a business standpoint, but enjoying the benefits of working together.