sole director on furlough, work 1 day a week?

unholyangel

Caz3121 said:

https://www.shipleystax.com/covid-19-can-you-furlough-yourself-if-you-are-a-sole-director/

Furloughed directors as employees on can only claim on their PAYE element, even if they are the sole employee. Basic conditions are as follows:

• they can qualify as normal under CJRS
• they must not provide any services that is income generating
• can continue to perform their statutory obligations as directors/office holders e.g. official legal filings, Company secretarial etc
• only the PAYE element can be furloughed – not dividends

Their wording (that you've highlighted in bold) has a high risk of misleading people. The exclusion is that you cannot generate income or provide services to/on behalf of the company. Not that you cannot provide servies if they generate revenue. 

The article confirms that itself (no generating income or providing services), so why they chose to word it so poorly in the bullet points is puzzling. 

craig88b

Kaemi said:

Non income generating work only. So I've paid invoices, I've completed my accounts, written a few blog posts, updated the mailing list, but I've not taken any money, sent out invoices, worked for anyone basically. 

Technically, that's not allowed either.