PPL as self employed
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Topic: PPL as self employed
Posted By: peanut butter
Subject: PPL as self employed
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 4:47pm
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Hi there,
I am about to send off my application for PPL as a self employed person. Has anyone done this before or have any advice? The website is so ambiguous. I think I am eligible as since June I have been doing a combo of locuming and also doing the accounts for my father's business. Both of which I invoice them for and do GST etc. My hours at the moment have dropped as I am not locuming right now but Iw as doing heaps before so when I average it out as 6 months leading up to EDD I get 10.3hrs per week (phew!). I guess it feels wrong as I will get more on PPL than I am currently getting but I guess not as much as I was getting a month ago so it is all legit.
Why do they make you feel like you are doing something dodgy? I think its all the declarations you have to sign. I am not going through my accountant as I am too tight to pay for his time and he is sooooo slow. So I am going with the declaration in front of a JP. I figure I have copies of all my invoices etc so if they ever audit me I should be ok.
Any tips? Past experiences etc? |
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 4:58pm
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No help sorry, but have recently gone self employed myself so will be interested to know how you get on.
I found how much you got a bit vague too. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: TraceyA
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 5:33pm
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I found this http://www.ers.dol.govt.nz/parentalleave/self-employed/ - link but it isn't very clear. I can't figure out how this applies to DH (it's his business). ------------- TTC #2 |
Posted By: LeahandJoel
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 6:36pm
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I got PPL as a self employed person, there is a form you can download for this. I put infor 10 hrs per week as I was doing the accounts for our business and some running around as well. I went through our accountant as she is a friend so didn't charge me! I had no problems getting it, they sent a letter which took about 3 weeks to come through I think, might have been 4 - preggy brain here!! It comes every fornight and is for the full amount of time. You should have no problems getting it. Good luck with it all -------------  
 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 8:21pm
| Cool thanks. I had downloaded the form. Just gotta find a JP and sign my life away. It willbe great to get the payments kicking in around Xmas..phew!!! |
Posted By: Nikki
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 8:34pm
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So can you average out the hours? So if I get pg and work less towards the end it will still be OK as long as it averages out to over 10 hours / week? (I'm working 2-4 days a week at the mo, but may end up only doing 1-2 depending on what work I have). ------------- DS (5yrs) and DD (3yrs) |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 15 October 2008 at 8:40pm
| yes Nikki, thats the way I interpret it. They say you can chose to do it over 6 months or 12 months whichever works better for you and that you need to average it out. I was not expecting to have enough hours but it looks like I will...just!! Thank god for the extra hours I did earlier. |