Self employment, how to fill my annual income?

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Co-mingling of business and personal funds unfortunately does make this a bit complicated. To summarise: Your father's business operates from his personal account. Income for his business goes into it, expenses for his business goes out of it, and whatever is leftover is basically his salary, although presumably things like annual and irregular business expenses also go out of his account, making it hard to work out what his actual income is.

As a baseline, his income should be recorded as 3000 in your example, but you're going to need to submit additional evidence to show that he is legitimately self employed, and that this is an accurate reflection of his income. My impression is that UKVI are especially sceptical of self employment, because it is easy to synthesise a bank statement which claims to show self employment income by moving around savings.

Such evidence could include but is not limited to: anything he needs to submit to the government as part of his business operations, such as tax statements and business registration, accounts signed off by an accountant, evidence of his professional registration (ie proof he is legally practicing as a dentist).

It may be advisable to submit more than 6 months evidence, so as to give an accurate picture of his income (because eg, taxes may be paid in a lump sum at one point in the year).

And lastly, a complete but concise explanation of his business and what all the documents you've submitted mean should be included in a cover letter.

Any documents not in English (or Welsh) must be accompanied by a professional translation.

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