Wife cannot work - Mental Health Issues

Darksparkle

fishybusiness wrote: »

Or they can be self employed.

No, that's sole traders. Sole traders complete the self employed section of a tax return.

If a director of a ltd company you declare salary, benefits and dividends on an SA return. The company then does CT returns. Otherwise the individual would pay income tax on the company profits.

Poppie68

There is some excellent advice given but I think others are a little perplexed regarding what you actually want...

You say your wife is too unwell to work and in fact not doing any work so your worried how it looks because you are still paying her, but then go onto say she is still working?

If she is too unwell at this stage pay her SSP and she can spend the time seeking treatment and hopefully be back at work in the not too distant future.

Get her to resign due to ill health if you are so worried of any type of repercussions if you fire her.
Keep in mind though that if she does put in a claim for ESA she very well may have to have an assessment especially as she hasn't had any intervention for over 3 years for her illness.

nannytone_2

the OP is giving quite a lot of contradicting i formation.

they also say that his wife could not cope with an assessment as she cannot cope with meeting people, yet says she is doing some work including taking in deliveries

Poppie68

nannytone wrote: »

the OP is giving quite a lot of contradicting i formation.

they also say that his wife could not cope with an assessment as she cannot cope with meeting people, yet says she is doing some work including taking in deliveries

To be honest nanny he seems to be saying a lot but not quite coming to the point of what he actually wants! Could it be benefits related or am I being a cynic?

GirlFromMars_2

nannytone wrote: »

the OP is giving quite a lot of contradicting i formation.

they also say that his wife could not cope with an assessment as she cannot cope with meeting people, yet says she is doing some work including taking in deliveries

Meeting someone to receive a delivery & meeting someone for an in depth assessment of your health are two entirely different things though!

nannytone_2

GirlFromMars wrote: »

Meeting someone to receive a delivery & meeting someone for an in depth assessment of your health are two entirely different things though!

i agree but the OP says she can't answer a phone either but can take in deliveries.

I'm just pointing out the contradiction.
and as Poppoe says ... no one quite knows what the question being asked actually is

thorsoak

If your company can afford to pay your wife's salary, and your tax accountant is happy that you are complying with HMRC regulations, and you can manage to combine your duties with your own, then why not carry on in this situation? It will keep your wife from the stress of attending interviews etc, it will save your company some corporation tax - and maybe, at some time in the future, your wife will be able to recommence her work again.

UKSBD

thorsoak wrote: »

If your company can afford to pay your wife's salary, and your tax accountant is happy that you are complying with HMRC regulations, and you can manage to combine your duties with your own, then why not carry on in this situation? It will keep your wife from the stress of attending interviews etc, it will save your company some corporation tax - and maybe, at some time in the future, your wife will be able to recommence her work again.

Thanks, that is what I'm hoping and are pretty sure we are safe to do, my wife just worries that she shouldn't really be paid for what she does.


Hopefully she will be back to being able to do more soon anyway, I may have said she does nothing in my OP but what I obviously should have said is "she has bouts of doing virtually nothing"


I'll report back to her that most people can't see a problem with what we are doing, and that reassurance alone will help,

Poppie68

Do you have an accountant? Maybe he can put your wife's mind at rest by explaining the legitimacy of the situation?

UKSBD

nannytone wrote: »

i agree but the OP says she can't answer a phone either but can take in deliveries.

I'm just pointing out the contradiction.
and as Poppoe says ... no one quite knows what the question being asked actually is

She can answer the phone but goes through bouts of not doing so or switching the dialer off.


She as a phobia about strangers, but if a delivery driver was knocking on the door for 10 minutes, most times she would either ask them to leave it on the step or if they wouldn't , she would open the door to take delivery.


Regular delivery drivers, postmen, etc. she is not so bad with.


It started off as 2 questions


3 or 4 people obviously got the 1st part straight away and have been helpful


1. How should I handle this as a Company Director?
i.e Is it OK for the company to carry on employing her under the circumstances when she has bouts when it is hard to justify paying her.


Unfortunately, we never got to the 2nd part of the question as some people replied with outright wrong replies Absolute rubbish. You can employ someone to do no work whatsoever if you wish. others seem to think there is a hidden meaning in the question.


In hindsight I should have just asked the original question in an accounts forum and only worried about the 2nd question if they think the company is wrong to employ her.