The Quick Guide to Working from Home: Practical Advice for Starting a Home-based Job or Business

by Hugh Williams

Working From Home looks at legal and commercial aspects for both those who are self-employed and working from home and those who are working from home and employed as homeworkers.

Working From Home is a pocket guide that outlines the essentials about what you need to know, what you need to do, and what the law says about those who are working from home, either self-employed or as home workers.

You are thinking of setting up a business from home or becoming a home worker. You need to know the basics.This quick guide can help. It contains succinct, practical advice on setting up a business from home, including the tax, accounting and other rules and regulations that might affect you.

Subjects covered

Tax rates and allowances when working from homeSome popular ways of earning money working from homeMinimum wage rates for homeworkersSample full business plan for the self-employedSample agreement when one spouse agrees to work for the otherMatters that should be included in an employment contractSpecimen layout for a set of business accounts'Heads of agreement' for a business partnership agreement between husband and wifeHealth and safety - the elementary steps that should be taken by an employer when an employee is working from homeWorking From Home

Working from Starting offWorking from Tax and accountingWorking from Home and the Rules and regulationsSelf-Employment and running your own business from You and your customersThe employed at home 

 

 

Valid in England, Wales and Scotland

Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

British chartered accountant, author and politician.

Williams was educated at Eton College and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970. He set up his own accountancy practice in 1973, first at a small farm on Dartmoor, moving to Plympton in 2001.

Williams is a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.