Free creator accounting resources Every free calculator, workbook, checklist and guide we have built for UK creators and influencers. Brand deals gross of the agency cut, the PR drawer that counts as income, the £1,000 line, the VAT streams that do and do not count, and the January that stacks. One worked creator, Robin Hale, runs through all of it, every convention is stated, and none of it sits behind an email form. Each section leads with the one worth opening first, and the last section cross-links the freelancer essentials that live on their own hub.
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Start here Creator Income Tax Calculator Every stream in one pass: £30,600 of profit is a £4,687.80 bill, and the first January wants £7,031.70 of it at once. Brand deals gross, ads, affiliate, products and tips Gifts with strings added at market value, as income The trading allowance applied whenever it beats your costs Calculator plus Excel Gifted Products Tax Calculator The £1,800 drawer of PR gifts costs £468 in real tax, and nobody sent the cash to pay it. Calculator plus Excel Do I Need to Register Checker £2,600 of side income with £340 of costs: register by 5 October, take the allowance, save £660. Calculator plus Excel Creator VAT Threshold Tracker £40,800 of income, but only £30,000 counts toward the £90,000 threshold. The rest sits outside. Calculator plus Excel Payments on Account Calculator A £4,687.80 bill arrives as £7,031.70 on the first 31 January. The extra half is next year, paid early. Calculator plus Excel Agency Cut and Gross Income Calculator The bank shows £20,400 and the tax return wants £24,000. Both numbers are right. Calculator plus Excel
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Start here Creator Bookkeeping Template Income by stream and gross of every cut, costs by category, and a year sheet that computes the same bill the calculators do. A typical month: £3,550 in, £2,550 of profit The agency cut as an expense, never netted off the fee A third of profit moved to the reserve, monthly Excel workbook Brand Deal Tracker Six deals at £4,000 gross bank £20,400, and the demo book shows £10,200 of net fees still owed. Excel workbook Gifts and PR Log £1,900 of product received, £1,800 taxable where briefs and tags were agreed, £468 of tax computed. Excel workbook Kit and Home Studio Log £5,400 of kit claims £4,680 on honest shares, and sixty editing hours a month claim £216 a year. Excel workbook
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Start here First Self Assessment for Creators Register, record, file and pay, in the order that works, so the January panic never happens. The £1,000 test on GROSS income, gifts included Register by 5 October, then file and pay by 31 January The records that make the form ten minutes Printable checklist Brand Deal Checklist Usage rights, exclusivity, kill fees and payment terms, run through the same page before every yes. Printable checklist Going Full-Time Creator Checklist Runway first, then the tax that gets bigger, then the safety nets you are leaving behind. Printable checklist
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The general self-employment tools live on the freelancer hub; these four earn their cross-link.
Start here Sole Trader or Limited Calculator The company question priced on your own profits, rather than on whoever is selling formations this week. Both routes, same profit, take-home compared The crossover point where the company starts winning Running costs counted, not assumed away On the freelancer hub Tax Reserve Tracker What to put aside as the money lands, so January is arithmetic rather than a crisis. On the freelancer hub Going Limited Checklist If the calculator says company, this is the sequence: formation, bank, payroll, and what changes the day after. On the freelancer hub Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Quarterly digital updates reach £30,000 of income from April 2027 and £20,000 from April 2028. On the freelancer hub Nothing matches that. Clear the search, or set the filter back to All.
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