Using An Umbrella Company To Take Care Of Your Tax Liabilities

If you are about to leave your employer to become a freelancer or contractor, then you need to decide how you will handle your future tax liabilities. You need to get something arranged as soon as possible, to avoid being hit with a big, unexpected, tax bill later on. The solution should be one that allows you pay the least amount in taxes, but which also makes it easy for your customers to deal with you.

Your choices are to set-up a limited company or to operate under what is called an tax umbrella company. Setting up a limited company, in which you are the director and only shareholder, is the most tax efficient way of working, and means that you can claim back a wider range of expenses, such as equipment and software costs.

Setting up a limited company is expensive and time consuming though. You will have to hire a lawyer and accountant to start with, and there are various on-going fees to pay, and paperwork to deal with. The easier option is to let a tax umbrella company take care of all the technicalities for you, and then you can focus on what you do best – making money.

If you use the services of a tax umbrella company, you enter into a contract with them and effectively become a PAYE employee again. However, you get the benefits of being an employee, without the hassles. Of course, the umbrella company cannot tell you what to do, but for you they will look after your invoicing, payments and tax contributions.

The tax umbrella company system is fairly simple to use, and you can have everything set-up within a few days. Once you are in their system, you will get paid from them every couple of weeks or every month, with the amount being whatever your clients have paid for your services, minus your taxes and the fee that you have to pay the umbrella company. You should only have to pay the umbrella company a set monthly fee, and not a percentage of your earnings.

Deciding which tax umbrella company to use can be a bit of tricky process, as some of the less reputable ones try to charge you a percentage of your earnings, or make claims that are false. One false claim, which is unfortunately not that uncommon, is that if you sign up with a particular company they will give you ‘special dispensations’, implying that you can claim more expenses by using their services; however, as any accountant will tell you, these claims are untrue, and expenses are either allowed or disallowed according to taxation laws, and not at the discretion of the company that you use to calculate your payroll.

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