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What's the view on pre strike off of company, converting some recent dividend to directors loans (via freeagent) which are then paid off (from personal savings) before striking off the company. This is with the plan on making use of the full 25K ER without need for MVL?
I shall be going umbrella and shutting my company down to reduce any risk
If I need I will open another/new company if outside gigs start popping up again next year/ I work mostly in financial services, so expect umbrella gigs to be the most common given all the policy decisions.
Well they only have to suspect you of tax avoidance by incorrectly determining yourself outside ir35... so client now determining someone inside is a good reason to suspect it I would have thought
"HMRC have taken the decision that they will only use information resulting from these changes to open a new enquiry into earlier years if there is reason to suspect fraud or criminal behaviour."
Re: starting another company. If you close old company down without gaining any tax advantage via MVL/ER (e.g. no/low distributable profits retained, decision made to close company to reduce risk of retrospective investigation), would it be possible to open a new company in ~6months/a year if...