CIS cards in Arb...

[Mesterh]

You could just get a CIS card to save all the grief.

 

IIRC they dont cost anything you only have to fill a form or 2 in.

[Lee Winger]

we all need a cis card i'm sorry to say, been through this 100 times with accountants, contractors and of course the taxman, 20% or so deduction i'm affraid, stinks doesn't it!

[dazlog]

Yes Lee is right, we had to get one 20% does stink. There`s section on self assement form for it aswell.

[john@arbtech]

If you are doing works to enable construction to take place you need one, thats basicaly how it was explained to me. They are not bad things, saves having to save money for your tax bill!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Just add 20% onto the bill

[john@arbtech]

Why? its just the tax anyway??

[Mesterh]

We have done quite a lot for construction companies lately and they havent asked for our CIS cards(which we have) so I guess its up to whoever runs the site

[Andy Collins]

A couple of years back the company Steve and I were subbing to required CIS cards, so we duly trotted off to the HMRC to fill out the forms, and we were issued with TEMPORARY CIS. The reasoning behind this was that they were phasing them out at the end of OCT 2007, so as long as you applied prior to Oct 07, your details would be on their system. Now I dont know the state of play now, my card is past its expiry date, do we still have to have a card with photo ID? Generally I just show my old card to people and that seems to do.

I've just been asked to quote for site work and just wanted to check, before they say I dont have CIS or something.

[18 stoner]

Like you Andy, i used to have a card but it was some 7 or 8 years ago. Think it got binned years ago!

 

One of the builders i was speaking to the other day said the new type does not expire now like the old ones. Could be worth getting the new one anyway, then we have it!

[Andy Collins]

Just got off the phone from the CIS helpline. So long as an application was in before 04/07, the details are on the HMRC database. CIS cards are no longer issued, nor have to be shown on site. Taxation is automatically adjusted at source (CIS 20%, non CIS 30%)