Good morning everyone,
Could you please help me and provide some information about National Insurance Number? My client just received one. Should I report it somewhere besides a payroll software? I was told I should inform Companies House /he's got a LTD company/ but I'm not sure about that. I've tried to find it on CH but with no luck. Or maybe he needs to report it to HMRC? I found an online form 'Notification of a change in personal details' but I guess it assumes that someone already has NINo. Does anyone have any idea?
Ps. I'm sorry if that's a silly question. I'm new with this.
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Nothing needs to be reported to CH or HMRC. Not CH because it's nothing to do with them. Not HMRC because they already know - it was they that reported it to your client in the first place wasn't it?
Yes, it is a silly question. In fact, it's an utterly ridiculous question when asked by someone who is supposed to be dealing with a client's tax affairs. It betrays an astonishing lack of knowledge.
Why not advise your clients to appoint a professional and then get some training and experience before taking on anybody else?
Private studies of clients
Then why did you say in your opening post. I'm just a student. Calm down :) It's only for my private studies.
As a general rule, students don't have clients. The professional bodies tend to prohibit it. My client just received one.
In fact, there seems some general inconsistency in your answers to date as to what you do.
If you are a student working in a firm, then you should be asking your supervisor questions like this. If you are being asked to handle this then they are doing you a disservice by not telling you these things.
If you are, as more than one of your posts has indicated, operating as in practice in your own right, you are not doing your clients any favours with such basic gaps in your knowledge.
If it was a student course question you should have stated this at the start of your post so that members know how much depth to go in to.
And be polite about it when you get an answer you don't like to a question you didn't ask correctly in the first place
@KDF
There is a discussion group especially for students asking questions at
https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/group/student-discussion-group
That is the correct place to post student questions. You did phrase your question as though it was a genuine question about a client, so I don't think you can blame Tim for assuming that was the case.