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Loose Ends - How to be a full-time working director

13 June 2001 / David Whiscombe , Jeremy De Souza
Issue: 3811 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

A partnership may be run alongside a company, sometimes as a means of mitigating National Insurance contributions. The chickens can, however, come home to roost with a vengeance on a sale of the shares in the company. The Revenue will often argue that the existence of the partnership means that the director is not a full-time working director of the company and that therefore retirement relief is not due.

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