Thanks Gerrin2old!
Thats about the same as I had been thinking, but since I have been PAYE all my working life to date, I am trying to track things backwards to try to come to figures that would at least have me balancing my books to the same as on PAYE.
Kind of hard to explain I think, but I mean I am trying to note down all the additional expenses that I have to consider before setting out my prices. ie. advertising costs, consumables, fuel costs, hiring casual labour as required etc. Also, I believe working self-employed would mean my state pension would need to be looked into, or I get a private one. I also need to consider some insurance for sickness, injury and probably even a liability insurance in case I am responsible for damage to customer property
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Gee!, this is even more complicated than I thought, I still have much research to do ???.
Thanks again for your reply and your advice, seems like sound advice.
BigBad.