Update July 2020 - Our cooperation with Modis has now ended and will not be renewed as of right now.
tl;dr - Starting today, we'll run a 6-month trial cooperation with Modis , a recruitment company and solutions provider for IT and engineering companies. We will post selected freelance jobs from Modis in our community to help them find matching candidates more quickly.
Update July 2020 - the Welance coworking space does not exist anymore unfortunately!
In times where working remotely is becoming more and more normal among freelancers as well as regular employees, the challenge for everyone who cannot (or does not want to) work from home or a nearby café is to find a suitable coworking space. Recommendations for good coworking spaces are requested regularly in our community, so we decided to try to find a space that we can recommend to our members in Berlin.
We're happy to report that we found one in Welance!
Update from August 2020 - we reactivated our cooperation with Kontist. Find out the new conditions in our recent blog post.
The Berlin-based FinTech startup Kontist was our first cooperation partner and we are still big fans of their business bank account designed for freelancers! Nowadays they're offering even more and help you to stay on top of your business with real-time tax calculation, accounting integrations, and much more.
The most tedious part of being self-employed are often the accounting duties–whether it's the monthly or quarterly preliminary tax returns, the full tax return at the end of the fiscal year, or simply matching incoming payments to outgoing invoices. If you are not yet using a capable software for your invoicing and accounting, you are probably spending too much time on it!
Dealing with taxes is an unavoidable part of being self-employed. Especially in Germany, where bureaucracy and tax laws are notoriously complicated, it's important to have a knowledgeable expert at your side—either to do all the sorting and filing for you or at least to consult with when important questions come up.
Today we want to announce our partnership with the tax consultancy Führer & Orgel, who we have been working with for over 10 years (so even before Uplink was born about 2.5 years ago). They have been a reliable partner and helped us—and many freelancers and small companies that we referred to them—with all tax-related issues we have encountered over the years.
