[Kev Martin]

They are my Grandchildren in full time education delivering papers they don't have another job

[CleanClear]

If you want to offset it against your business the answer is Yes Yes Yes if you call me I will talk you through it.  I am employing  my Grandchildren  for a few hours over the summer holidays  and I have had to inform HMRC they are 12, 14, & 15

This is what i was reffering to Kev. If you follow the questionaire i linked to then the answer is....yes they do have another job so you would need to register as an employer. If they did not have another job (i.e their paper round), then according to that you would not have to register. But if you do already employ at above £112 per week you will already probably be registered anyway ? 

[Kev Martin]

I will rephrase that correctly!  I am employing my Grandchildren primarily to give them a little extra pocket money and to keep them off the streets a bit during the summer.  They can only work for 15 hours per week or  4 hours a day by law.  I still had to register them to pay them! (Unless I pay them cash which we never get).  It only takes two minutes but I stay squeaky clean.  I would still have to register them even if they didn't have a paper round  to take money out of the business officially and claim it as deductable) and no they don't get anything like £112 per week

[samson]

I will rephrase that correctly!  I am employing my Grandchildren primarily to give them a little extra pocket money and to keep them off the streets a bit during the summer.  They can only work for 15 hours per week or  4 hours a day by law.  I still had to register them to pay them! (Unless I pay them cash which we never get).  It only takes two minutes but I stay squeaky clean.  I would still have to register them even if they didn't have a paper round  to take money out of the business officially and claim it as deductable) and no they don't get anything like £112 per week

Slave driver 

[samson]

I agree about being squeaky clean, we try and do everything by the book so there are no come backs later on.    Only thing I would say is there isn't a lot of ( free ) help out there like they used to be.  We had  Yorkshire business malarky and you could go on all kind of free courses and stuff, but they stopped it