Self employed taxes in the UK – what records do you need to keep?

Let’s have a little chat about self employed taxes and record keeping in the UK. As a self employed person, you must keep records to back up the information you put on your self assessment tax returns. You can keep paper records, electronic records (e.g. in a spreadsheet) or you can use software. So what sort of information do you need to keep track of?

All Downloadable Spreadsheets (Members Only)

By popular demand, here's a full list of all downloadable example spreadsheets that may be useful for your small business. This includes an income and expense tracker, invoice templates, quote templates, pro forma template, hourly rate calculator and more.

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Making Tax Digital for Income Tax – a disaster for small business?

So you know how you currently do your taxes once a year and you have 10 months to fill in your tax return? Well I’ve got bad news for you. You’ll soon need to send up to 5 tax returns per year, you’ll need to update HMRC every 3 months and you’ll be forced to buy special software that lets you do this. Welcome to the joys of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment (MTD ITSA)

UK small business tax rates 2022/23 – at a glance!

There’s good news and bad news. Income tax rates generally aren’t increasing. However as inflation steadily rises tax breaks such as your Personal Allowance are now locked in until 2026. Coupled with forthcoming rises in national insurance, corporation tax and dividend rates the net impact for small business owners is a substantial and quite sneaky tax increase over the next few years.