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ARTICLE · 03 OCTOBER 2019

Taxing Moonlighters And Freelancers

Freelancers and consultants in individual capacity have previously gotten away with only paying 6% WHT as retained by their clients on payments.

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About the end of last year (2017), I happened to be having lunch at the staff canteena of a pan-african TV powerhouse. At the head of the table sat a Prince (at least according to himself) and somewhere mid-table sat other, one of them claimed to be the "real Prince" and that the other was the "other Prince".

The "other Prince" retaliated by saying that if all of us died at one go (God forbid); the news headlines would read "Prince Dies With 5 Others".

I had been passively listening but from then on, I became present at that lunch table and noticed that the two had quite a number of similarities; both loud, both full of self but full of life, both "princes" and whereas the "other Prince" (who is by the way the boss of the "real Prince") had just come in from another job, the "real Prince" was hurrying out to his 3 hour show at a radio station; these "Princes" were both Moonlighters.

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