1st August 2008, 04:24 PM
2pints,
Oxbeast is giving you good advice. You're already being looked at by the tax office over the taxable accommodation issue, do you really want to make it worse by putting yourself in a position where they may have very good grounds for challenging your self-employed status. If you haven't done so already read Hosty's guide to self-employment. I was planning to set myself up as a freelance archaeologist a few months ago and after checking out all that it entails decided that the risks, (confusion by archaeological contractors over what constitutes self-employment), weren't worth it. There are other ways to ride out the credit crunch, stay in work which is heritage based and be self-employed. If you have experience of checking reports (quality assurance) then freelance copy editing pays c.20 GBP per hour or if you have written DBAs then you could set yourself up as a freelance researcher, c.650-800 GBP per week; both of which do fulfil the criteria for self-employment.
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Oxbeast is giving you good advice. You're already being looked at by the tax office over the taxable accommodation issue, do you really want to make it worse by putting yourself in a position where they may have very good grounds for challenging your self-employed status. If you haven't done so already read Hosty's guide to self-employment. I was planning to set myself up as a freelance archaeologist a few months ago and after checking out all that it entails decided that the risks, (confusion by archaeological contractors over what constitutes self-employment), weren't worth it. There are other ways to ride out the credit crunch, stay in work which is heritage based and be self-employed. If you have experience of checking reports (quality assurance) then freelance copy editing pays c.20 GBP per hour or if you have written DBAs then you could set yourself up as a freelance researcher, c.650-800 GBP per week; both of which do fulfil the criteria for self-employment.
(edited for sp.)