My kid is a brilliant bookkeeper!

[northernladuk]

All great ideas, you should do this. If you found a hen that laid golden eggs, NLUK would find many reasons why this was a bad thing and why you should kill it before HMRC found out. I honestly think he works in a gov datacenter tasked to sowing disinformation and quashing any hope or resistance citizens have.

Thank you for your kind words but after seeing these 'ideas' on here for over a decade and not one of them holding water you kind of get that way.
These posts all go the same way, an initial idea, some feedback, the original idea is embelisihed with more facts ad infinitum. Just making it as he goes along to justify it to himself.
Also if it was a good idea it would be well documented and have endless articles on it, which there isn't.
Then there is the matter of who the OP is.
And yeah, I look at the negatives, it is what I do. My view with any idea, focus on the negatives. If you know what they are you can assess the risk and fix them and the positives will come naturally. Just focussing on and getting giddy at the positives leaves you open to trouble later.

Oh and lets be brutally honest, the chances of work from home, bone idle and stupid HMRC actually even querying anything are pretty slim. They can barely handle people wanting to ring up to give them extra money for free to make up missing NI years. How many billions were written off in covid loans? Oh yes 16 billion, they couldn't even be bothered to try and deal with that to get that huge number back.

Which is true so stop making up situations to try justify it to us and get on with it if you want to.

EDIT : To be fair I'm about the only person that brought up an valid (albeit negative) aspects to the discussion.

[vetran]

Not really. Now my kids have been earning a while, I've invoiced them for the costs of bringing them up.

a cardboard box and dry bread?

[WTFH]

a cardboard box ...

Lifestyle choice.

[Paddy]

Not really. Now my kids have been earning a while, I've invoiced them for the costs of bringing them up.

Verdingkinder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdin...cheap%20labour.

[Snooky]

a cardboard box and dry bread?

Those handfuls of gravel don't grow on trees, you know

[Snooky]

He also does basic import/export data into my client's ERP systems.

I'm guessing he uses the credentials your client issued to you personally, and their IT security policy says nothing about sharing passwords? Perhaps they don't have one or perhaps they didn't ask you to agree to it. Sounds like a good arrangement.

On a more positive note, good for him learning and earning, the real world of work and having to pay your way comes as a great shock to many young adults.

[WTFH]

On a more positive note, good for him learning and earning, the real world of work and having to pay your way comes as a great shock to many young adults.

Do you seriously think the kid is actually doing any work, and it's not just a wheeze by the 3 slide wonder to try to evade taxes by falsely claiming a schoolboy is full-time employed and should have a salary, pension, company car, company laptop, etc, etc?

[SueEllen]

a cardboard box and dry bread?

What no tent and sleeping bag?

You guys are so harsh...

[SueEllen]

Do you seriously think the kid is actually doing any work, and it's not just a wheeze by the 3 slide wonder to try to evade taxes by falsely claiming a schoolboy is full-time employed and should have a salary, pension, company car, company laptop, etc, etc?

Also he can't ask his dad for a (work) reference considering they share the same name and live at the same address.

[DrewG]

Do you seriously think the kid is actually doing any work, and it's not just a wheeze by the 3 slide wonder to try to evade taxes by falsely claiming a schoolboy is full-time employed and should have a salary, pension, company car, company laptop, etc, etc?

Those 3 pages have kept me off the bench during the worse bear contractor market in years.