Yesterday‘s post on Plato’s Cave was not, as it turns out, the only one to have come out of Saturday morning’s discussion that Jacqueline and I had at the Weleny Wetlands and Wildlife Trust Reserve.
We’re getting a lot of mention about how important wifey is to the production of the blog, the YouTubes and so on.
Might someone be getting worried about IR35?
Doubt it. I don’t think anybody’s suggested that YouTubers are actually employees of Google, so he is legit self-employed and outside IR35. Also if he was contracted to anyone, he can point to the YouTube um… output as evidence that he is not solely working for any one party.
Far more likely that he’s applying for grants that are only available to partnerships and not to individuals.
I was thinking of the other side of it. Two people, two personal allowances, two etcs. Income splitting….
IIRC the new LLP he set up to handle the YouTube stuff has his missus and his son as the partners, not him. Not sure what he’s up to with that – probably pays a ‘consultancy’ fee to TRUK. It’ll be interesting to see what the first LLP accounts show
Well spotted Andrew C! Elidir Productions LLP. Murphy’s son is the majority shareholder. But the website has expired! I wonder if it is still in business
Is there any benefit in income splitting? Murphy’s wife is a retired GP with presumably a final salary NHS pension. Didn’t Murphy say he has stopped applying for grants? So his income is the state pension, any income from Youtube, newspaper articles, and donations (c.£15k last year). Not obvious there is any benefit in transferring income to her.
Does he have enough knowledge of tax and basic accounting measures to have worked that out?
The spelling is “Welney”. Can’t he even get that right?
I’m pretty sure Murphy pays his son Thomas for his video work and I wondered if Murphy dealt with this under PAYE and paid employer’s NI? Or is Thomas alleged to be self-employed?
I refuse to believe that he is not a creation of Peter Simple, and that I have not somehow slipped into a parallel universe partially created by that author.
“Weleny Wet” – wasn’t he the last Archbishop of Canterbury?