When I left Binders and started Z/Yen, I traded as a sole trader for a couple of months while forming the group of companies and getting the corporate business ready to trade.
I was very careful to make sure that all of my self-employed income was properly invoiced and recorded at that time. Following consultattion with the tax authorities on the phone, we agreed that, for that short period of time, I couldn’t/shouldn’t try to separate my writer/media self from my business start-up self, so for a short while I invoiced my writing activities through Z/Yen and even (for some of the weeks) paid over VAT on the royalties.
This was the second of the invoices, raised on the same day as the first. The electronic version of the first seems to have become corrupted, but I shall probably be able to dig out a physical version of it and scan it up to Ogblog in the fullness of time.
I will have raised the invoice only after receiving the dosh, so Harriet will not have had to do anything with the invoice – I suspect she studied it for at least 5 seconds before deep filing it in the wastepaper basket. Harriet?
When printed out it looked like this – click here.
Z/Yen
Ian Harris
12 Clanricarde Gardens
London W2 4NA
(071) 243-0725
E-mail: zyenilh@zyenharri.win-uk.net
INVOICE – FILE COPY
VAT REG NO GB 646 1995 04
FAO Harriet Quirk Date: 10 September 1994
News Revue Tax point: 1 August 1994
Canal Cafe Theatre
Delamere Terrace
London
W2
INVOICE TO:News Revue
ACCOUNT REF:NR01
INVOICE NO:02002
In respect of songs and sundry patter for the News Revue show (known as Di’s run) during the period 7 July to 31 July 1994.
£
ROYALTIES 48.26
VAT – NIL (tax point prior to VAT registration) –
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TOTAL £48.26
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