Expat Ltd's?

[Lucifer Box]

To all you expats in the UK: how are you freelancing? Did you set up a UK Ltd or did you just sign up with a brolly company? Is there another way to handle everything?

I have a kiwi cousin coming over and one option I had was to offer the possibilty of making her an employee of my Ltd if she gets a contract. That would at least make it simpler for her. Any drawbacks for either of us in doing this?

The major thing to consider these days when employing anyone is that employers are now in large part unpaid administrators of the tax and benefits system. A typical melange of things you need to consider are: Employers' NI, tax credits, possible maternity benefits, possible student grant repayments, statutory sick pay, paid holidays, pension scheme provision (although at present only if you have 5 or more staff), national minimum wage, statutory document production (payslip, P60, P11D, etc.), increased liability premiums, extra accountancy fees. There are more, but this is a good selection of the major ones.

[Mustang]

To all you expats in the UK: how are you freelancing? Did you set up a UK Ltd or did you just sign up with a brolly company? Is there another way to handle everything?

I have a kiwi cousin coming over and one option I had was to offer the possibilty of making her an employee of my Ltd if she gets a contract. That would at least make it simpler for her. Any drawbacks for either of us in doing this?