thing called paye or pay as you earn which basically means that your taxes are taken care of out of your salary before you get it it's all done by your employer and that's great because it means most people in this country who draw salary and are paid by somebody else they have an employer they never fill out a tax return their entire working lives it's all taken care of at the point of pay however as a youtuber i'm technically self-employed so i didn't have an employer to pay me and take care of my taxes at the point of pay i had to start doing my own tax returns and here's the thing about taxes it doesn't matter whether you live in the uk the usa or anywhere the government has no sense of humor whatsoever when it comes to taxes if you mess them up you are in the and i really didn't want to mess them up so i hired an accountant now i don't want you getting the wrong idea i realize i have an accountant sounds like all bloody dar and official and business-like but you know it's not like i'm going for long business lunches every week when i go over my offshore accounts or anything once a year i send all of my paperwork to an accountancy firm and they do my tax return for me right that's it i pay them a small fee and it's worth it for the peace of mind of knowing that my taxes are going to be done properly and i'm not going to go in the with the government well anyway well anyway as a self-employed businessman sounds very special but really it's not it turns out there are a number of things that i can actually claim as business expenses for example the rooms that i rent in the place where i live one of them is used exclusively for recording and processing and editing and uploading video so of the three rooms that i rent i can actually claim a third of all the rent that i pay as a business expense also every time i buy a new pc because i need a pc to work the cost of that pc is also a legitimate business expense and last year i had all kinds of problems with new pcs i don't know if you remember but the pc that i was using was getting a little bit long in the tooth and because i knew i could basically write off the cost of a new pc as a business expense i bought the best video rendering pc within reason that i could afford and it lasted about a month before the cooler blew on it and because it was under guarantee with a return to base warranty rather than trying and probably failing to fix it myself i sent it back to the manufacturer unfortunately this was kind of in the run-up to christmas and you know covered lockdowns were happening so they were estimating at least two weeks before they could get it fixed and sent back to me and i couldn't afford to wait two weeks without a pc because i need a pc for doing my job so i was forced to go out and buy another emergency pc and i made sure i got a good one and it turned out it was just as well it's actually the pc i'm using right now i've been using it ever since because the broken brand new pc took a little
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