{"id":174,"date":"2026-11-03T04:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/freelancer-or-company-when-is-it-worth-changing\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T04:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T04:35:56","slug":"freelancer-or-company-when-is-it-worth-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/freelancer-or-company-when-is-it-worth-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelancer or company: when is it worth changing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no magic figure, but there are clear signs: when your profit grows, when you hire people or when you want to limit your personal liability.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The tax difference<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A company pays corporate tax at a fixed rate, while a freelancer pays income tax on a rising scale. From a certain level of profit the difference is noticeable.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/unika-consulting-service05.jpg\" alt=\"The right structure depends on your numbers and your plans.\" class=\"wp-image-154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/unika-consulting-service05.jpg 870w, https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/unika-consulting-service05-480x303.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 870px, 100vw\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The right structure depends on your numbers and your plans.<\/figcaption><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Advantages and drawbacks<\/h2><figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><thead><tr><th><\/th><th>Freelancer<\/th><th>Company<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Set-up cost<\/td><td>Almost none<\/td><td>Notary, register and capital<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Liability<\/td><td>Unlimited<\/td><td>Limited to the capital<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Taxes<\/td><td>Income tax, rising scale<\/td><td>Corporate tax, fixed rate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Paperwork<\/td><td>Simple<\/td><td>Full accounts and annual accounts<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changing too early costs money; changing too late costs more.<\/p><\/blockquote><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Numbers first<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before deciding, ask for a study of your case: it also depends on how much you want to take out of the business and on your plans for the coming years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Income, risk and growth plans: the keys to decide whether it is time to set up a limited company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukc-accounting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop.unikaweb.es\/unika-consulting-theme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}