Freelancer Agreements

Many professions are popular for self-employed freelancers in business as sole traders. Using freelancers in business has many advantages, both for the professionals concerned and their clients.

Designed for use for a range of professions, these Freelancer Agreements carefully regulate the relationship between a freelancer and his/her clients. This subfolder contains templates under which the individual freelancer can personally contract with a client.

Each template aims to minimize the risk that HMRC (or employment law) will regard the freelancer as an employee of the client rather than as a self-employed sole trader.

As explained in the information page accompanying each form of contract, use of that (or any other) form cannot actually remove that risk, and so professional advice should therefore be sought. The advice will need to consider the content of the form to be used together with all of the circumstances and arrangements relating to the work, the freelancer, and the client.

Where the client instead contracts with the freelancer’s intermediary company rather than with the individual freelancer, you should instead use one of the forms in the Freelance (Company) Agreements subfolder. Those forms provide for the client to appoint the freelancer’s company (either a personal service company or some other intermediary company) as a consultant.

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