Re: Ownership and twists : Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:23 pm
Northernrelic wrote:
A simple expedient if you have the cash
You did have the cash though. You deduct tax and NI from salaries and you have the cash. You charge and receive VAT and you have the cash.
You could pay all such cash into a Tax Payable separate bank account and no issue would ever arise.
If by the time you come to pay your HMRC bill you no longer have the cash, that is simply because you have taken HMRC's money and spent it.
If HMRC go for winding up for not paying what you owe but you neither get wound up nor pay what you owe then that's well within any reasonable definition of a "trick". It is a perfectly legal and widespread trick, if done within the relevant rules, but a trick nonetheless.