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For UK employees starting or growing a side hustle

Confidently Grow Your Side Hustle Without Getting Stung By HMRC

A beginner's guide and tracker that gets your side hustle set up properly, so you only pay for an Accountant when you're earning enough to need one.

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The admin nobody warns you about

Starting a side hustle is the easy bit. The admin is where people get caught out.

There's a £1,000 allowance before HMRC needs to hear from you, but it's measured on your sales before costs come off, not your profit, so people cross it without realising. Once you're over it there's a deadline to register for Self Assessment, and missing it can mean a penalty before you've made any real money. Your employment contract may also have something in it about outside work or who owns what you create.

This pack works through it in order: what your contract says, whether you need to tell HMRC, keeping your business money separate, what records to keep, invoices, customer data, and when VAT or Making Tax Digital start to matter. Plain English, with links to the official HMRC guidance.

The tracker keeps it straight without an accountant. It records your income and expenses, works out the business share of anything you use for both work and personal, tracks the money you're putting aside for tax, watches your sales against the £1,000 and VAT thresholds, and gives you a monthly checklist so it takes twenty minutes rather than a lost weekend. It's a record-keeping tool, not a tax calculator, and it won't file anything for you.

What you get: a PDF guide and a Google Sheets tracker, delivered straight after payment.

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UK Side Hustle Admin Pack + Tracker

£10One-time payment

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No subscription. No website account needed to buy. A Google account is required to copy the tracker.

Your pack is delivered straight away, so by paying you're asking for instant access and agreeing that your 14-day cancellation right ends once it's delivered. This doesn't affect your rights if anything is wrong with the pack. See our Terms.

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Three simple steps

  1. Step 1

    Get the pack

    Make your one-time £10 payment securely through Stripe.

  2. Step 2

    Open your pack

    Access your PDF and tracker after payment. We also email you the links.

  3. Step 3

    Make a start

    Download the pack and create your own editable Google Sheets tracker.

You don't need to become a tax expert. You need to know what to do next.

This pack brings the common admin questions into one practical resource, so you can work through the checks, organise your records and get back to building your side hustle.

  • Designed for UK employees.
  • Plain-English explanations and practical actions.
  • Official sources included for important guidance.

This product provides general educational information, not personalised tax, legal, employment or financial advice. Rules and thresholds can change. Check current official guidance or seek professional advice where appropriate.

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