[AuRavelling79]

Any of you working with your "significant other" - how do you describe yourselves to the taxman?

[C o z y]

She has the carpet and upholstery cleaning biz, and I have the window licking biz. Saves tax and the VAT threshold.

[DaveG]

I  employ my mrs and pay her just under the tax threshold. . Works a treat 

[PoleKing]

I  employ my mrs and pay her just under the tax threshold. . Works a treat 

+1.
If she finds out though, I'm screwed.

[Herve garrot]

do you really want to work with you mrs? that would be a bit too much for me lol.

[PoleKing]

do you really want to work with you mrs? that would be a bit too much for me lol.

It's only on paper.

[Herve garrot]

lol  quite a good idea !

[SeanK]

I don't employ so not sure on this but could the taxman not ask for work
sheets/records stating what that person was doing for the paid hours.

[Smudger]

She has the carpet and upholstery cleaning biz, and I have the window licking biz. Saves tax and the VAT threshold.

That's ok as long as both are run totally independently with no cross over of staff, vehicles and equipment 

We are a partnership, mrs smudger runs the office, does advertising, books quotes etc..
I run the physical cleaning side, vans, staff, equipment etc..

Only problem we sometimes have is you can on occasion end up talking shop right through the evening about, customers or business development, when your passionate about the business it's difficult to turn off sometimes.

On the plus side, it's great to be able to bounce ideas around and thresh out a solution

Darran

[*Hector*]

Mrs H and I both work together, to the point of her coming out to help clean the carpets. She does mainly what she calls "marketing" with the customer, I call it "gassing in the kitchen", but it really helps with repeat business.

We are both down as self employed with HMRC but working in a partnership.. All it means is, we fill in our own individual tax returns (I do them both) we split the profit from the company straight down the middle, and then we have to fill in a partnership form, stating what percentage of the business profits each of us get... Think this is to see if anyone lies on the tax returns..

So far we have managed to pay minimum tax doing it this way..... 

[wpclean]

Me, and my wife are equal partners, she is fantastic with the customers, and all the admin side.   We are a good partnership, and it makes life so much easier working together.

[8weekly]

My wife is about to be made redundant. I am thinking of persuading her to work with me. She will have 3 months pay & we could relatively easily find the £500 a week necessary to not miss her money at all in that time period. But it sets a number of issues to resolve. For example go limited and both be directors, does she come out a day or two a week to make the workload easier? I am picking up work at an embarrassing rate at the moment as well as turning down one offs and avoiding add ons so the work won't be an issue at all.