New queries, issue 4386

Bringing up baby

I am a full-time employee for a mid-tier firm of accountants. I have been looking at the real time information (RTI) rules in order to bring some of my clients up to speed but my research has given rise to queries about my own personal duties.

Although I am not in business myself my husband and I regularly engage the services of a babysitter.

While I suspect there are some babysitters who are in reality self-employed I am not entirely convinced this would be the correct legal analysis at least in our case even if that would give us a convenient way out of our obligations under the PAYE code.

Several years back I raised this with HMRC and was told that we need not worry about PAYE at all provided that the weekly payments were below the Class...