Originally Posted by Doghouse Riley:
“Hmm..
Name me one known BBC regular who isn't a limited company and sells their services to the BBC.
It's a tax dodge historically condoned by the BBC.
If they appear on BBC in a BBC show, they are BBC people, lets not get into semantics.”
No.
Incorrect.
People like say Claire Balding a freelance so she can work for BBC C4 etc.
Not a tax dodge, there is no such thing!
In the past the BBC had more sports rights, so had staff on exclusive contracts, those days are long long gone, another example, Gary Lineker works for BT sport as well and took a pay cut at the BBC.
Tax wise a few mention tax dodge but are confused, there is tax management, that's legal, and tax avoidance or a dodge that's illegal. The HMRC allows tax management but will take tax evaders to court. This is where those who do not know the difference get muddled up. Or deliberately mislead.
If you are say a freelancer like Claire Balding they agree what they will cover with the BBC and C4, and it typically is paid into a limited company. This is " legal" not a dodge.
They have more than one employer the income is gross profit, and they have costs, ( expenses) to come off, that's net profit, the company pays taxes on that, at company rates, then Claire will pay taxes on her drawings, dividends or salary anything drawn out of it. So they pay taxes, maybe twice!
It's quite frustrating that a few deliberately mislead to try to get their personal opinions across, rather than actually post facts, i.e. The truth.
So the point trying to be made incorrectly is if they appear on a BBC show they are BBC people, Claire also works for C4 so she has a freelancer and not BBC people, technically Gary Lineker is no longer BBC people as his income is more at BT and has advertising income from a brand of crisps.
Not semantics, facts.
Meaning.
the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.