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Self-Employed & Sole Trader
Plain-English UK self-employed and sole trader guides for registration, records, expenses, Self Assessment, mileage and first-year admin.
Self-Employed & Sole Trader guides
- How to register as a sole trader in the UK — A practical first-step guide for people who have started earning from freelance work, side jobs, trade work, selling, or services.
- Sole trader record keeping: what to keep from day one — A complete but plain-English guide to the records sole traders should keep so tax time and accountant handoff are not a scramble.
- Self Assessment for sole traders: a plain-English guide — What Self Assessment is, what records feed it, and how to make the yearly return less intimidating.
- Sole trader expenses: what you can usually claim — A practical guide to expenses that keeps the language simple and the evidence requirements clear.
- Working from home as a sole trader: what to track — A simple guide to home-working records for sole traders, with a focus on evidence and avoiding overcomplication.
- Mileage and travel expenses for sole traders — How to record mileage and travel so journeys have enough evidence when tax time arrives.
- Side hustle to sole trader: when admin gets real — A friendly guide for side projects that are becoming real income streams and need better records.
- Sole trader tax deadlines: 5 October, 31 January, 31 July — The key dates sole traders should know, and how to prepare records before each one.
- How to prepare sole trader records for an accountant — A practical accountant handoff guide so you send useful records, not a mystery pile.
- First-year sole trader checklist — A first-year admin map for new sole traders who want to avoid a messy first tax season.