[jambutty]

Originally Posted by West Ender

Agreed, so on the face of it perhaps anyone doing this work is going to be self-employed, which has advantages. For instance they could probably offset the £200 against their turnover, as a legitimate business expenditure, and claim various expenses like phone calls etc. (that's out - not in ) to reduce their tax bill. It would only be a case of keeping records and submitting a tax return every year.

But as self employed working from a private residence you fall foul of the Council Tax laws. However whatever portion of Council Tax is attributed to ‘the business’ that is a legitimate business expense and therefore tax deductible. The same would apply for the phone. You would have to come to some agreement with the taxman on how much of the line rental is attributed to the business.

It’s a can of worms but not unsolvable.

I’d like to see the details of such a scheme though before praising it too much.