MPs' shock at BBC tax deals - Workers paid via personal service companies

[SueEllen]

That's called chickening out of employer's NI (short term), offering employment rights (long term), and pensions (long term).

It also saves the license payer money particularly in redundancy pay and fighting tribunal cases over unfair dismissal.

[xoggoth]

Slightly off topic but some of the rules on employees/otherwise are stupid. According to my daughter in law (a high earner when she can work) she can't employ a nanny to work in her home without administering PAYE. PAYE should be for companies with a minimum high turnover.

[Sysman]

Slightly off topic but some of the rules on employees/otherwise are stupid. According to my daughter in law (a high earner when she can work) she can't employ a nanny to work in her home without administering PAYE. PAYE should be for companies with a minimum high turnover.

There's a lot of red tape to discourage you from doing things the "proper way".

A fellow contractor who had half a dozen employees decided it might be a good idea to give someone a chance with one of the youth opportunity schemes back in the 1980s. He found a couple of suitable young lads, but was so frustrated by the elf 'n' safety crowd who wanted to inspect his premises, see timesheet records etc. that he nearly packed the idea in.

Meanwhile my local double glazing company was abusing that same system to get cheap labour then saying to each and every hopeful trainee "Sorry, not suitable for a full time job" once the allotted time was up. Then getting another bunch of recruits in at the cheap rate.