This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Change the Law For the Child Maintenance calculation for company directors
Use the annual company profit to calculate child maintenance where the absent parent is a company director irrespective of how they pay the profit to themselves.
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Many absent parents are paying themselves nominal amounts as company directors through the PAYE system when they employ themselves thus avoiding child maintenance payments. They then pay themselves dividends from the company profits which are not currently used for maintenance calculations.
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