24th April 2015, 11:17 AM
Hello Hosty
Thanks for putting the corrections to the guide. It could probably do with a lot more and if anybody sees anything that particularly irks them, try and let us know. There are quite a few changes affecting self employment in the next couple of years and this guide for starting out in self employed archaeology is likely to be pretty redundant in a years or twos time even without any spanners from the forthcoming general election so its probably going to need rewriting which should be seen as an opportunity for improvements.
One of the things that came from researching self employment for this guide is the HMRC studies on the self employed and their grouping of self employed as forming networks to basically pass round tips on tax avoidance. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy...ort238.pdf based in studies like these https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy...ort205.pdf All very anthropological but highlights the assumption that we are tax fiddlers and not anybody primarily employing us. I get the same feeling that I have with cifa that they struggle with their observations on the self employed because they have not clearly defined their level of participation in their observations (archaeology is anthropology). Basically if you are on PAYE how can you want to "understand" self assessment if you haven't given it a go, where as most self employed have given PAYE a go. But what I most take from the HMRC attitude is that archaeology needs a self-employed network to become a recognised group because there ARE specific tips needed for paying the correct tax for things like a visit to Pompeii to undertake an experiment on the effects of drinking Posca, whilst wearing replica Roman sandals, that you will then write up in an archaeological magazine that might be considered legitimate business expenses. Now we could all ask the HMRC individually or we could share round the tips from a single foray to such oracle. So group tips would be nice.
There are also other glaring holes in this guide. I haven't mentioned pensions as I barely ever paid into the one that I had set up so I cant claim any sense of "successfulness" from it. Also I have not tried to answer the question of whether to account for stuff as a service or a product or what to make charges for. I am sure that there are many more topics that could be of use. You could try abusing me through the BAJR notification network. Thanks in advance.
Thanks for putting the corrections to the guide. It could probably do with a lot more and if anybody sees anything that particularly irks them, try and let us know. There are quite a few changes affecting self employment in the next couple of years and this guide for starting out in self employed archaeology is likely to be pretty redundant in a years or twos time even without any spanners from the forthcoming general election so its probably going to need rewriting which should be seen as an opportunity for improvements.
One of the things that came from researching self employment for this guide is the HMRC studies on the self employed and their grouping of self employed as forming networks to basically pass round tips on tax avoidance. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy...ort238.pdf based in studies like these https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/sy...ort205.pdf All very anthropological but highlights the assumption that we are tax fiddlers and not anybody primarily employing us. I get the same feeling that I have with cifa that they struggle with their observations on the self employed because they have not clearly defined their level of participation in their observations (archaeology is anthropology). Basically if you are on PAYE how can you want to "understand" self assessment if you haven't given it a go, where as most self employed have given PAYE a go. But what I most take from the HMRC attitude is that archaeology needs a self-employed network to become a recognised group because there ARE specific tips needed for paying the correct tax for things like a visit to Pompeii to undertake an experiment on the effects of drinking Posca, whilst wearing replica Roman sandals, that you will then write up in an archaeological magazine that might be considered legitimate business expenses. Now we could all ask the HMRC individually or we could share round the tips from a single foray to such oracle. So group tips would be nice.
There are also other glaring holes in this guide. I haven't mentioned pensions as I barely ever paid into the one that I had set up so I cant claim any sense of "successfulness" from it. Also I have not tried to answer the question of whether to account for stuff as a service or a product or what to make charges for. I am sure that there are many more topics that could be of use. You could try abusing me through the BAJR notification network. Thanks in advance.
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