Register and obtain a UTR number – Brigad

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What is Brigad?

Brigad is an application that enables self-employed professionals to connect with more than 10,000 businesses in Hospitality and Healthcare industries for flexible missions.

On the Brigad app, you can receive numerous propositions of well-paid and flexible missions everyday, from which you can freely accept as you want, according to your professional profile and personal schedule.

Brigad then secures the administrative work, by generating automatically the contract, the invoice and the payment.

Benefits of using Brigad

By working with Brigad, you give yourself the opportunity to:

Have a real work/life balance. As a self-employed professional on Brigad, you are free to choose your missions. This allows you to arrange your work around your personal schedule and professional goals.
Be better paid. Missions are globally better paid thanks to Brigad and every hour worked is invoiced. Moreover, being self-employed enables you to freely work more hours, for multiple businesses.
Learn and discover new things, meet new people, choose the types of missions and businesses that match your professional goals, which allows you to break the routine, feel valued and considered
Get paid automatically on a weekly basis. No need to wait until the end of the month.

How to register?

Download the app "Brigad - Receive missions"

1. Sign up by filling in all the requested information (phone number, email, name)

From this step, you will need to confirm first your email address by clicking on the link provided in the email sent before you can go further into registration. Make sure to check your spam folder!

2. Complete your profile

Provide your address
Select the position for which you are qualified and would like to receive mission proposition
Detail your experience on the position by completing the fields

If the position you want in your area is not available, it means that it is not open for registration at the moment.

3. Upload all the documents requested in your application

Identity document still valid (front and back, unblurred and uncut)
Profile picture where your face is visible

4. Add your personal UTR number

If you do not have one yet, follow the steps in this article

5. Book a call with our team

Why and how to be self-employed?

To receive and accept missions on the application, it is necessary for you to be self-employed.

The main advantage of being self-employed is that you have the complete flexibility to work when and where you wish to do so. When using Brigad as self-employed, you are free to choose your own work and manage your time accordingly to your schedule and career goals.

It's easy to set up and demands relatively little paperwork. Once registered as self-employed, you are only required to submit your self-assessment once a year to HMRC.

To use the Brigad application, please ensure that your register as a self-employed sole trader and not a limited company. It is not possible to use UTR numbers that are issued to limited companies has this disrupts the invoicing process for your missions.

To obtain your UTR number, you have two options:

1. Register as self employed with HRMC

You can also register over the phone with HMRC by dialling this number 0300 200 3310.

2. Brigad also has a partnership with Tax Ninja

Tax Ninja will do all the admin for you!

For a one-off fee of £20, all you need to do is fill in this questionnaire and they take care of the rest.

Once you complete your self-employment registration, you will receive your UTR number within 2 weeks of registering. Please ensure to enter it into your Brigad app once you receive it.

When you have completed your registration, a Government Gateway account will be created for you. This grants you access to the government’s range of online services, the most important of which is HMRC’s Self Assessment portal.

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