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by kingsloi 2055 days ago
I ran a little one man band shop in the UK for a few years, my accountant provided me my own FreeAgent (https://www.freeagent.com/us/) account, which I really loved.

I'd track my time, attach it to a contact, create an invoice for said time at x rate, download it, send it to them, and when the $/£ was received, I'd mark it to that invoice. I'd have automatic bank feed, so I'd have my business bank transactions imported daily, I could then attach a payment to said invoice, and any difference in money (invoiced $500, received $475 - transfer fee, currency conversion, etc), FreeAgent would automatically select the correct reason for the discrepancy. Everything was categorised, my accountant could pull reports/taxes from FreeAgent.

This was a few years ago, I only imagine it's gotten better since. I've recommended it to people in the US, and I think it integrated well with the US way of doing things (taxes, forms, etc).

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I can definitely recommend FreeAgent for a UK-based operation. It completely automates your taxes and with MTD (making tax digital) you don’t even have to deal with any papers or manual filing at all.
I'm in Canada and second FreeAgent. Been using it for 5-6 years. It's a solid piece of software.