New Freelancer in UK needs help...

nocturnal, post: 3060 a écrit : In order to get paid, my employer told me that I have to invoice them. How can I do that? Do I have to register somewhere as freelancer so that I can get to invoicing people, if yes, what are the registration/montly/annual costs to this registration?

Hi Nocturnal,

You will have to register as being self-employed with HM Revenue & Customs within the first 3 months of contracting (I think it's 3 months, but please check).

But you can go ahead and invoice the company straight away. Just mock up a basic invoice listing services rendered, the cost for each service (include times if you were working hourly/daily) - the address of the company you're invoicing, and your own address. Also include an invoice reference number for your own and their records. Your word processor may even have an invoice template or there are plenty online to look at. FreelanceUK has an invoice template and here's another.

If you're going to be doing a lot of freelancing now you could get something to manage and create your invoices. There's a bunch of online and offline software that will do this for you. I use an offline programme called Billable

THX. I just move to UK as well and need to find out how does it work here. so in principle freelancing its selfemployment? what about tax. How does it look when Im dooing full time job in one company and wonna do some freelance work as weel??:confused:

DesignSimpleWeb, post: 3261 a écrit : so in principle freelancing its selfemployment? what about tax. How does it look when Im dooing full time job in one company and wonna do some freelance work as weel??:confused:

There's nothing wrong with working full-time and freelancing as long as you register yourself as a freelancer and declare this additional income.