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Payment options for your Self Assessment tax bill - Direct Debit, bank transfer, through your tax code, debit or credit card, cheque and pay weekly or monthly
How to report profit on your Self Assessment tax return from 2023 to 2024 if your accounting year does not end on or between 31 March to 5 April.
These manuals contain guidance on self-employment.
Tools and guidance for businesses
What you must do when you sell your company, partnership or sole trader business
Financial information about a legal aid applicant’s business partnership or self-employed work.
Find out about tax reliefs and allowances available from HMRC if you run a business, employ people or are self-employed.
How Universal Credit works if you are self-employed and how to report your self-employed income and expenses to Universal Credit every month.
Use the Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool to find out if you, or a worker on a specific engagement, should be classed as employed or self-employed for tax purposes.
This form is for clients and/or their partners who are self-employed sole traders.
Overview of OTS work relating to simplifying tax reporting and payments for self-employed people.
Research exploring the choices made by self-employed people, and their views on the benefits and challenges of self-employment.
Contact HMRC if you're self-employed and have an Income Tax enquiry or need to report changes to your personal details
How to know whether the operatives you deploy are employed or self-employed, and what this means for tax and national insurance.
Sign into or set up a personal tax account to check and manage HMRC records, including Income Tax, change of address, Self Assessment and company car tax.
Support for self-employed people and those interested in starting their own business.
Find out what to do if you need to pay back some or all of a SEISS grant.
Use form CA5601 to pay self-employed Class 2 National Insurance contributions by Direct Debit.
Research looking at the income of self employed people.
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