united-kingdom tax-law corporate-tax-laws
Can an employee pay for boss&#39; things?
<p>If someone had a trusted remote employee living in Saudi Arabia where there's no taxes, would it be possible for them to instead of paying themselves a wage, pay the foreign employee extra and then the foreign employee buys the employer whatever he needs? I.e they can buy them a car, pay their energy bills etc?</p>
<p>This way they could be able to pay zero taxes in total?</p>

<h2>Can this happen?</h2>
<p>Sure.</p>
<h2>Is it legal?</h2>
<p>Oh my, no.</p>
<p>It’s clearly an illegal <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tax-avoidance-an-introduction" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tax avoidance scheme</a>.</p>
