CIS Registration - where do I stand?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

The 20% retainer is purely on the labour element. I usually put down the labour element as 20% of the invoice total, the rest being haulage, machine hire, etc etc. That way I only pay 20% of 20%. All above board and legal, but means they cant shaft you for 20% of the invoice price.

 

That is spot on; the kind of thing you can learn by networking on this site. Cheers Ed.

[Mr Ed]

I was lucky - It was a very nice girl in procurements at a construction company who explained that to me

[tommer9]

Ed did that wiliams southern used to be part of Sellick/nichols/wiliams do you know?

[Mr Ed]

Could be mate. I think they are based in Plymouth.

[tommer9]

I only ask as SNW have had a reputation down here as awful payers for years, and the williams bit split off a good few years back..........they are all tied up in this thread BTW without saying too much:sneaky2:

[Mr Ed]

Well I put my invoice in, and a day later the accounts manager phoned me to say I needed a CIS.

Now this will ruffle feathers, but if you do ANY kind of work for a client that spends more than a million per annum on construction, you fall under the regs. Tree felling, Arboriculture, agriculture, it makes no odds.

Having got away without registering for years, I was at a slight loss, but I have to say, the W&S accounts manager was great. She explained the whole system to me, and what I could get away with claiming. And bang on 28 days later, a cheque dropped through the post.

[tommer9]

Well I put my invoice in, and a day later the accounts manager phoned me to say I needed a CIS.

Now this will ruffle feathers, but if you do ANY kind of work for a client that spends more than a million per annum on construction, you fall under the regs. Tree felling, Arboriculture, agriculture, it makes no odds.

Having got away without registering for years, I was at a slight loss, but I have to say, the W&S accounts manager was great. She explained the whole system to me, and what I could get away with claiming. And bang on 28 days later, a cheque dropped through the post.

 

Fair play to them. true to word at least.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Fair play to them. true to word at least.

 

Can't have been the same company!

 

Accounts manager being helpful! Cheque in reasonable time! Nah.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Well I put my invoice in, and a day later the accounts manager phoned me to say I needed a CIS.

Now this will ruffle feathers, but if you do ANY kind of work for a client that spends more than a million per annum on construction, you fall under the regs. Tree felling, Arboriculture, agriculture, it makes no odds.

Having got away without registering for years, I was at a slight loss, but I have to say, the W&S accounts manager was great. She explained the whole system to me, and what I could get away with claiming. And bang on 28 days later, a cheque dropped through the post.

 

Oh I get it - if THEY spend over a million; there was I thinking it referred to me doing a million quids worth of work on construction sites p/a !

[Mr Ed]

Yup. Thats why so many local authorities now require CIS registration for payment.