A bit naughty I must admit but seemingly legal,then again they contribute millions to the economy unlike this Scumbag.....http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewgilligan/100142591/ken-livingstone-tax-avoidance-labour-unease-grows/

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Oh the irony. Tax avoiders and s***e products.

Goodness me. It seems even teachers are at it......

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Interesting link. When I did agency work, I was paid by an umbrella company. Had no idea whether NIC was paid, the agency told me everything was above board.
Still at least I'll get 3 square meals in the scrubs...and a playstation (apparently)

You don't really get one for this type of method I think Stu. If I remember correctly, you're paid a minumum amount (can't remember what this is based on - but it less than 10k PA) on which you pay NIC and income tax. The rest of your wages are paid as 'profit sharing' from the umbrella company after they have paid corporation tax.

I think the minumum amount might be the threshold amount you can earn before income tax (in which case you don't pay any income tax - just corporation tax). My memory's a bit fuzzy though

Lend me a Tenor

31 May to 3 June 2017

John McIntosh Arts Centre
London Oratory School
SW6 1RX

with Superfly in the chorus
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Yeah, it is. I used an umbrella while contracting for a while (but then I'm a filthy capitalist).

You 'work' for them, and earn a small wage thus avoiding large amounts of NI, and staying outside IR35 by not directly contracting.

All legal avoidance techniques, but precisely the sort of thing that tends to draw disgusted tuts when done by others. Although I did receive a payslip (which I think they are legally obliged to produce).