Editor's view

The continuing refusal of the Government to contemplate registering nannies or allowing parents tax credits for employing them is leading to a boom in schemes that set nannies up as limited companies in order to cut costs (see News, page 6). Some schemes around involve the parents making the savings in tax and National Insurance, while the nanny is at risk of missing out on benefits and may not have any savings passed on to her. The two schemes we report on this week promise to avoid these pitfalls by giving the nanny control of the situation, and both come...