If you have your own business, pay your children and write their salary off as an expense. They get taxed at their tax rate, so it鈥檚 a savings for the family. Yes, you can do this. There are a bunch of rules, though 鈥 the kid actually has to work, for instance; and no, you can鈥檛 send them to the coal mines 鈥 so check out some websites before you put Junior on the job.