This pocket guide will encourage you as you develop (what may be) a wholly new mode of working as you get going at home.

It examines the legal aspects involved to try to help you become aware of how the law will affect your new circumstances, but the aim is not to knock you down with a whole lot of legal 'Thou shalt nots!'. Instead, they are explained in their proper perspective.

This book is meant to be (what it appears at first glance) a light read which, while telling you of the pitfalls to beware of, encourages you to make the most of all the opportunities that working from home presents.

Subjects covered include:

• Tax rates and allowances
• Some popular ways of earning money from home
• Minimum wage rates
• Sample full business plan
• Sample agreement when one spouse agrees to work for the other
• Matters that should be included in an employment contract
• Specimen layout for a set of accounts
• 'Heads of agreement' for a partnership agreement between husband and wife
• Health and safety - the elementary steps that should be taken by an employer when an employee works from home

Valid in England & Wales and Scotland.

About the Author

The author, Hugh Williams, was educated at Eton and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970. He started his own practice H M Williams Chartered Accountants in 1973 and their clients range from individuals to multi-million-pound organisations. He has held positions on the committee of the Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and has also addressed the Tax Faculty Conference on tax practice management.

1. Starting off
2. Tax and accounting
3. Rules and regulations
4. You and your customers
5. The employed at home