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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostBIG DIFFERENCE
Paying inappropriate salary to someone is not allowed and HMRC will ask you to justify it.
Claiming JSA as a contractor is perfectly legal, above board, allowed. How many times?
Claiming JSA as a contractor - taking the piss.
How many more times?
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Originally posted by tractor View PostWhy would you apply that to your company and not to JSA?
Paying inappropriate salary to someone is not allowed and HMRC will ask you to justify it.
Claiming JSA as a contractor is perfectly legal, above board, allowed. How many times?
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostOK maybe too wide ranging a statement. Its not clever to pay your wife a salary of say £10K when, in effect, she does bugger all or a bit of filing.
My understanding is that any salary needs to be appropriate for the work actually done. i.e. dont take the piss.
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostAnd the basis for that is what exactly?
My understanding is that any salary needs to be appropriate for the work actually done. i.e. dont take the piss.
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostPsycho - do you not have income protection insurance?Originally posted by psychocandy View PostYou mean for things like redundancy? No. To be honest its a grey area and I dont think you'd get this past an insurance company. i.e. own company just made myself redundant etc.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostYou employ your Mrs, don't you? Have you considered laying her off for 6 months each year, and doubling her salary for the other 6 months to maximise the benefits she can claim?
I think you'll find paying your wife a salary is not clever thing to do.
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Originally posted by mudskipper View PostYou employ your Mrs, don't you? Have you considered laying her off for 6 months each year, and doubling her salary for the other 6 months to maximise the benefits she can claim?
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Originally posted by psychocandy View PostFair play. Its a personal choice.
It just rips my tulip when people on here have a dig about it as if you're doing the crime of the century when its all perfectly legal and above board.
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostThinking about it - my policy is personal injury etc.... Not for being out of work.
I would do anything if I was in the tulip (dole office), but I would look to stack shelves first in the way.
Note, just to confirm, if you claim JSA the jobcentre will leave you alone for months. They're not that stupid. i.e. You won't be beating them off trying to give you jobs working in tesco. They realise its better for everyone if they give you a chance to go back doing what you normally do.
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Originally posted by gables View PostPC, I don't doubt the legality of it, but it's not about that for me. When I decided to become a contractor I knew what I was signing up to, bench time included, and it is quite different to what a factory worker signs up to. To me JSA is not for contractors between contracts.
It just rips my tulip when people on here have a dig about it as if you're doing the crime of the century when its all perfectly legal and above board.
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