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  Forogar  24-Apr-14 4:45
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When I was contracting in the UK I set up my own LTD company, paid the money to that and then paid myself as an employee along with PAYE, etc. I had one of those accountant chappies set it all up for me and everything went very smoothly.

The interesting thing was when I got apparently random audits from both the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise. C&E came first, treated me like a criminal trying to pull a fast one and seemed extremely disappointed when it turned out I was squeaky clean with every last little thing properly documented. A couple of weeks later came the IR; a very polite chap who sat in my home office (spare bedroom) for a couple of hours going over the same books the C&E had looked at the previous fortnight. At one point, as I brought him a cup of tea, he said "Aha! Here's a problem!", and I was worried and confused as I had told the accountant that I wanted everything "by the book" with no "pushing the limits". it turned out that the "problem" was that I had not claimed enough deductions for the "home office" and some other legitimate business costs and could save myself about an extra 800 pounds. He produced and helped me fill in a correction form and then finished off by saying what a pleasure it had been for him to go through such well maintained and thorough accounts! What a contrast with the C&E guys (three of them on their visit). He was so helpful I felt like asking him if he could audit me every year!

I found out later that my brother (half-brother actually), who was also an IT consultant had recently been audited and found to be pushing every limit and every dodgy claim. Hence my audit as well, I assume. Guilty by association. The weird thing is he used the same accountant and had, in fact, recommended him to me! I did change accountant after that as I realised it was my good wife maintaining the books that was the real saviour and I didn't need the over-priced accountant at all.
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