[thelist] New Design Firm

John D Bloise jbloise1 at nc.rr.com
Mon Feb 4 07:38:01 CST 2002


Why would freelancing be a bad choice in the viewpoint of taxes?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Crockford" <tonyc at boldfish.co.uk>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:14 AM
Subject: RE: [thelist] New Design Firm


> Technically, commercially or what?
>
> I work solo, as a freelancer (http://www.boldfish.co.uk)
> and as part of a team made up of freelancers and a ltd company
> (http://www.xebit.net)
>
> As a self employed freelancer I have flexibility and fear in equal
> proportion.
>
> Working as a team means we don't incur overhead between projects.
>
> One freelancer takes the lead on the project and sub contracts the others
on
> fixed price contracts. - the customer sees one company not four, but gets
> the cost effectiveness of freelance workers.
>
>
> It takes some managing, I'm not sure it's as acceptable to clients as it
> should be, but we like it.
>
> I'm sure lot's of people will now step forward and explain why it's a bad
> idea from a tax point of view or somesuch.  I wait with interest......
>
>
> HTH
>
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