Cab drivers on the 税金 削減（する） bandwagon

By Dan Atkinson, Mail on Sunday 経済的なs Editor
Updated: 00:00 BST, 12 October 2003

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CHRIS Phelan is a minicab driver, and like most of those working in London's cab and taxi 貿易（する）, he is self-雇うd.

ますます, however, he is in 競争 with a new 産む／飼育する of dri ver - the one-person 限られた／立憲的な company. And for every £8 he 支払う／賃金s in 税金, they 支払う／賃金 just £4.

Encouraged by lavish incentives under （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Gordon Brown's '企業 協議事項', these 会社／堅いs on wheels are going one step beyond self-雇用 to 十分な-blown 合併／会社設立.

'It is always 価値（がある） considering,' said Phelan, who lives in Hornchurch, Essex, 'but I have a good 関係 with the Inland 歳入, so it's not for me at the moment.'

Taxi drivers' 貿易（する） papers are 十分な of 宣伝s from accountants 申し込む／申し出ing to 会社にする／組み込む the 資本／首都's cabbies. But this 現象 is 全国的な and it 含むs self-雇うd people of every ilk.

In 1997/98, new 限られた／立憲的な company 登録s reached 205,000. By 2002/03, that 人物／姿／数字 had 急に上がるd by 57% to 322,000 and Companies House has been buckling under the workload.

The 誘発する／引き起こす for this 大当り was Brown's 2002 予算, which 廃止するd 会社／団体 税金 on the first £10,000 of a 会社／堅い's 利益（をあげる）s.

明かすing the 税金 削減（する）, he said: 'We want to see a more 企業ing Britain where, in every 地域, more small 商売／仕事s are starting up.'

Given the 返答, the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 せねばならない be delighted. マイク Warburton, 税金 partner at accountancy-group 認める Thornton, believes さもなければ. He said: 'What is happening is not what the （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 ーするつもりであるd. Very few companies 存在 created at the moment are new 商売／仕事s.'

In other words, much the same level of 商売／仕事 activity is 産する／生じるing いっそう少なく 歳入 for the 財務省.

Brown 概算の in 2002 that the 税金 削減（する） would cost the Inland 歳入 £265 million in 2003/2004. But the 学校／設ける for 会計の 熟考する／考慮するs, an 独立した・無所属 public 財政／金融 think 戦車／タンク, said that costs were 'likely to run to billions of 続けざまに猛撃するs'.

によれば the IFS, if half of all self-雇うd 労働者s became companies, the cost would be £1.2 billion a year - 同等（の） to

0.5p on the basic 率 of 所得税. 一方／合間, 合併／会社設立 is turning into a windfall for accountants.

Warburton s ays a self-雇うd person 収入 £30,000 a year would 支払う／賃金 22% 税金 and 11% 国家の 保険 on all but the first £4,615. This means a 税金 法案 of £8,377.

会社にする／組み込むd, that person would 選ぶ up a salary of no more than the personal allowance and put the 残り／休憩（する） into the company as 利益（をあげる）.

The first £10,000 would be untaxed and the balance would be 税金d at 23.75%, cutting the 法案 to £3,654.

'It becomes いっそう少なく 効果的な on 収入s above £50,000,' Warburton said, 'but most self-雇うd people do not earn anything like that.'

So is this a 税金 break gone wrong? John Whiting, a partner at accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, said: 'I いつかs wonder whether the 十分な 関わりあい／含蓄s of this were 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd by the 財務省.'

But Stephen Alambritis of the 連合 of Small 商売／仕事s has identified a more 悪意のある 動機. 'The （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 wants everyone to 会社にする／組み込む, as does the Inland 歳入, which has always disliked self-雇用.

'They may get いっそう少なく 税金, but they can keep an 注目する，もくろむ on everyone and they think it will be harder for people to cheat.'