Is a business responsible for secondary NIC on payments to self-employed cleaners?
If so and the self-employed cleaners employ their own staff, what responsibility does the business have in regard to the self-employed's own staff secondary NIC?
Andrew
Andrew Dinkenor
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Agency workers?
Is the business an agency for the cleaners and therefore has to operate PAYE as if the cleaners are employees of the agency? If so, the cleaners are the primary contributor and the business is the secondary contributor. It would be preferable if there was only one tier of individual workers, but I think the agency has no alternative but to operate PAYE on the total payments made to each of its workers regardless of whether the worker chooses to employ staff.
why?
Please - explain why a business should be responsible for secondary NIC on payments to sel-employed cleaners and perhaps you can answer your own question!
self-employed cleaners
a few years ago a PAYE compliance office told me that individual office cleaners cannot be self-employed - is there any evidence for that assertion?