Self-Employment Kit

by Hugh Williams

Lawpack's Self-Employment Kit contains business advice, self-employment information and accounting documents to help you set yourself up as self-employed, set up a business and develop your own accounting systems. We all know the self-employment dream. But how do we become self-employed in reality? The benefits of running your own business as a self-employed business person are highly attractive and highly rewarding. This Lawpack Self-Employment Kit provides a practical framework for those who are, or wish to be, self-employed as 'sole traders'. The Self-Employment Kit combines a wealth of self-employment advice on the legal and tax requirements, as well as advice and support with the day-to-day practicalities of self-employment. It includes template documents for organising and preparing those all-important business accounts. This Self Employment Kit has been written by Hugh Williams FCA, award-winning Chartered Accountant and business adviser. Don't just dream about being self-employed. Make it work with Lawpack's Self-Employment Kit. The 48-page Manual the basics of self-employment and getting started on the right footing; putting together cash flows and budgets, and possible sources of funding for your business; the consequences of VAT registration should you or shouldn t you?; the practicalities of deciding where you will work, stationery, office equipment, and filing systems; understanding accounts, with detailed guidance on how to keep records for Income Tax and VAT; running costs and the other expenses that you can offset against your tax bill.

44 pages, Paperback

First published June 16, 2003

About the author

British chartered accountant, author and politician.

Williams was educated at Eton College and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970. He set up his own accountancy practice in 1973, first at a small farm on Dartmoor, moving to Plympton in 2001.

Williams is a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.