Improving Family Life

It not just families who need to be treated specially, it's all groups who have problems.

Some years ago I met a senior civil servant in the Department of Employment, who said that the best way would be to allow everyone, who pays another to do work for them to charge it against their tax. Provided of course that the payment is declared by the recipient.

As he said, millions fiddle it, so that your mother’s help is often declared as a secretary etc.

If this system were to be allowed, you’d probably find that the number of real jobs and taxpayers would increase considerably.

1. Pensioners would group together to employ others as gardeners.

2. Child care would be professional and much better.

3. If you had an innovative idea you could just employ someone to test it without the expense of starting a company.

4. If you were going through say cancer, then you could employ a nurse.

No-one has ever seriously run this through the economy. At the time it was discounted by the Treasury as they did not include the black economy in their model of the country.

As an aside my secretary works at home two days a week over the Internet. Why is new technology never discussed as a way of getting a better work/life balance?