I do a few CIS accounts around April/May time, and have allowed my clients to pay me once their rebates have been paid. I've had a minor issue in the odd one not paying but was stung this year on one that had a much higher bill, as payroll and extra bookkeeping was included. Managed to get half the money so far but going forward I'm not prepared to let clients pay afterwards no more.
So is it still ok for me to collect the repayment (in a client account) and deduct my fee before passing the remainder on. I have read that HMRC are now frowning on this and prefer the repayment to go straight to the taxpayer. However, on taxfiler you can still tick a box to make yourself the nominee.
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We have been getting SA repayments into our client account. Get the client to sign a letter confirming amount that we will be deducting and what account they want the balance to be paid into.
Haven't done one for a couple of months but not aware of any issues.