These tax changes are designed to close loopholes that by definition were unintended as tax savings mechanisms. Sure if your wife/husband/kids actually work in your business then paying them is just fine, its only if you are "sprinkling" that money around family members who do not work in order to save tax that you will be closed down. Perfectly fair. An employee does not get to share his/her income between non working family members either. And I'm not so sure that people who do not own businesses are disinterested in this issue; there has been far more focus on tax havens, tax dodging by everyone in the last few years.BTW most commentators here emphasise that as business people they take risk, well its not the job of the resat of the populace to mitigate that risk beyond treating you fairly, if we are required to mollycoddle you by giving you all kinds of juicy tax breaks then its hardly a risk you are taking!