salaries as investment

please can anyone here confirm if the salaries you pay your employees are counted as investment

Yes, definitely as in the HO guideline its clearly mentioned any rational business expenses are counted as investment.
Cheers

Yes , for all employees except yourself.

please can you help me with the paragraph in the guidelines

Yes, but first you would need to transfer 50K/200K to your account. If you use that to pay your staff, then the amount will be considered spent.

csb wrote:please can you help me with the paragraph in the guidelines

35.
‘Spent’ by your business’ excludes spending on all of the following:
1) your own remuneration,
2) buying the business from a previous owner, where the money goes to that
previous owner rather than into the business,
3) investing in other businesses, and
4) any spending which is not directly for the purpose of establishing or running your
own business or businesses.

Tier 1(Entrepreneur) Policy Guidance version 11/2014 Page 16 of 59

You can also read the guidance for caseworkers from December 2014 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... .0_EXT.pdf