When you decide to start a business, one of the first choices you need to make is whether to create a Company or operate as a Sole-Trader.  Often people are pushed towards the company option, but should this really be the default option?

In business as in life, we like to get what’s owed to us: to receive reward, pecuniary or otherwise, for our painstaking endeavours. But sometimes, just sometimes, demanding a due payment is not the best policy.

I shall illustrate this point by telling you a story. A story about a long-term, mutually beneficial business arrangement that soured overnight. 

Paying tax is something none of us relish. Whether we’re employers or employees, we consider ourselves squeezed from above, beholden to a wolfish higher power. Upended like cartoon figures, shekels spilling noisily from our pockets and into the government’s capacious coffers.