Income Splitting If Not Married

[speling bee]

Don't be so sure. I drfit between senior management and strategic service architecture roles depending on what's available. Even on my rates I would earn more - even after tax - as a permie, with starting salaries around £95k and a decent package and being paid 12 months a year plus holidays.

Doing it my way I get to have a month off to visit friends in New Zealand when I fancy it. I don't have to worry about career paths, promotions, politics and peer envy. I definitely don't have to deal with Human Remains and all that personnel rubbish. I work in many and varied clients, ranging from banks to governments to mobile phone companies to manufacturing. I have a constant refresh on my knowledge and get to meet some seriously interesting challenges. I can work 6 months a year and still pay the paper bill. I make my own decisions and am rarely, if ever, under anyone else's control (they only think they are).

It's called being content.

Mal content?

[mudskipper]

Of course it's fine - you go for it. Your accountant and HMRC are wrong.

I do love the way people argue with those who explain the rules. It ain't us wot makes them.

Do what you like with your eyes open, and argue with HMRC if/when they come a-knocking.

[d000hg]

But so much of what we do is artifical - We take a small salary and dividend on purpose to minimise our tax - We work through companies when we are really nothing more then disguised employees

Yes. It is a bit dodgy, isn't it?