Spring Budget 2017

Any ideas on how us self-employed can avoid tax from now on?

Earn less than 10k pa

Yeah, that’s fine for bear but what about the rest of us?

Increase the amount of dodgy expenses you claim by 10%

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Don’t declare it.

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Cash in hand

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All good advice but what about something we don’t already routinely do?

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set up a charitable fund

Employ your missus as your secretary and give her a wage under the 10K limit.

Any ideas or should that be a different thread?

no idea, I just said words that sounded right

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The Tokyo academy for people who don’t think so good or learn stuff well?

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Why are we going to spend ÂŁ5m on celebrating women right to vote?

Pretty sure the suffragettes would say spend it on something worthwhile like social care or, if the woman theme is to be kept, domestic violence support.as opposed to wazzing it up the wall to “remind us all just how important it was.”

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Is that money going directly to the cause? I mean, will men receive compensation to give birds a night off from the cooking and cleaning and stuff? If not, I don’t see how it is going to help at all.

Just pay the tax. They reckon it’s an average of £260 per year per person.

It’s about £260 per year, a fucking drop in the ocean. Pay it, and don’t bitch as we pay far less tax than most people.

However, this shit is disappointing:

Share dividend tax change - and other announcements

The biggest money raising measure was a reduction in the total amount of dividends company directors and shareholders can receive from businesses without having to pay taxes, from ÂŁ5,000 to ÂŁ2,000.

Mr Hammond said the move was meant to “address the unfairness” around the dividend tax advantage, which he claimed was “an extremely generous tax break for investors with substantial share portfolios”.

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What shall we do, go for the large corporations who are dodging hundreds of millions of pounds, or try for ÂŁ260 off the self-employed?..

In all fairness, the self employed bloke isn’t offering ministers a consultancy when they step down, so he can go fuck himself.

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Will they be self-employed consultants or PAYE.

By the way, I was only joking Pap and Cherts. The dividend thing is a real kick in the nuts. No joking where that is concerned.

the bros i employ to dig my holes reckon they only pay £7 per week national insurance, or something stupid like that. Always thought it was bit suss, when I’m paying fkn thousands, and my employer is paying fkn thousands on top.

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