Disclaimer
The one-paragraph version
INTERNATIONALFREELANCERSDAY publishes general information about freelancing and remote work for readers in many countries. Nothing on internationalfreelancersday.com is legal, tax, accounting, financial or career advice to you personally. Rates vary enormously by country, skill and market. Platform fees and policies change without notice. Tax rules differ by jurisdiction and by year. Verify anything that matters against the primary source, and hire a licensed professional in your own country for decisions with real consequences. The rest of this page unpacks that paragraph honestly.
Not professional advice
Our Tax and Legal section explains how things like self-employment registration, invoicing rules, VAT thresholds and estimated tax payments generally work. It is journalism, not advice. We are editors, not your accountant or your lawyer, and we do not know your country, your residency status, your income mix or your contracts. A sentence that is accurate for one reader is dangerously wrong for another, which is why our articles name the jurisdiction and year they describe. When your money or legal standing depends on the answer, the sequence is: read our explainer to understand the shape of the problem, then confirm the specifics with the official source and a qualified professional where you live.
Rates vary, and averages mislead
Our Rates section publishes benchmarks with their sources, sample descriptions and collection dates attached, because a rate figure without those is noise. Even a well-sourced benchmark describes a market, not you. What you can charge depends on your skill, portfolio, niche, client base, language and country, and the spread within a single job title is often wider than the gap between job titles. Treat every rate on this site as a reference point for negotiation, never as an entitlement or a ceiling, and never as a prediction of your income.
Platform information goes stale
Freelance platforms change service fees, payment processing charges, membership tiers and terms of service regularly, and rarely loudly. We verify fee figures against each platform’s own published schedule and date those verifications, and our corrections policy commits us to fixing stale numbers fast. Even so, the platform’s own current pricing page always outranks us. If our number and theirs disagree, theirs is the one your invoice will follow, and we would be grateful for an email at support@internationalfreelancersday.com so we can catch up.
No income promises
Nothing here guarantees that freelancing will earn you anything. We do not publish “make this much from home” claims, and we decline advertising built on them. Case studies and examples, where we use them, describe specific situations that will not transfer neatly to yours. Freelancing carries real risks: income volatility, non-payment, platform account suspension, and tax obligations that arrive whether or not the invoices did. Good information reduces those risks; it does not remove them.
Reviews and comparisons are opinions
Our platform and tool reviews are honest professional opinions formed through the process described in our editorial standards. They are still opinions. A platform that suits a designer in one country may be a poor fit for a developer in another. Comparisons reflect the criteria stated in the article, weighted the way we weight them; your priorities may differ, and the article gives you the underlying facts so you can re-weigh them yourself.
Affiliate relationships
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Errors
Despite the checking described in our fact-checking policy, errors happen. When they do, we correct them visibly rather than quietly. To the fullest extent permitted by the laws applicable where the operator is established, we accept no liability for losses arising from reliance on the site’s content. The practical protection this page offers you is better than a legal clause: verify before you act, and tell us when we are wrong.
