I had a similar issue and included in the clearance letter that I had concerns around undeclared cash sales and bank expenditure that couldn't be linked to any income and the new advisor sent a copy of the letter to the ex-client who then rang up and gave me a load of verbal's! Thankfully not had another one to deal with but not sure how much detail I would include as the next one might see a brick through my car window or worse...
The clients husband is a management accountant for one of the big national house builders and is the one coming up with the ideas... I can't go into too much detail on a public forum but it appears he MAY have some links to the supplier company and some work is being pushed in (non-vat) directions that it shouldn't!
I've asked them for a link to the legislation but I've already drafted the disengagement letter this morning as Im fairly certain of whats going...
Thanks Jason, I had found a similar flow chart on the Ross Martin website and came to the same conclusion, but wanted to check that I wasn't mixing anything up!
Who the customer actually is could be another issue that I need to get to the bottom of, but they may end up an ex-client before I need to worry about that as its starting to look suspicious the more info I get from the client...
You've already spent longer than you should on this. Invoice him for the software (at cost) plus any actual work carried out eg payroll or VAT returns, refund them the difference and move on.
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I had a similar issue and included in the clearance letter that I had concerns around undeclared cash sales and bank expenditure that couldn't be linked to any income and the new advisor sent a copy of the letter to the ex-client who then rang up and gave me a load of verbal's! Thankfully not had another one to deal with but not sure how much detail I would include as the next one might see a brick through my car window or worse...
We just need a cloud based version now with similar entry speed *crosses fingers*
Thank you both for the replies. I will look through the link to Jason's post now.
The clients husband is a management accountant for one of the big national house builders and is the one coming up with the ideas... I can't go into too much detail on a public forum but it appears he MAY have some links to the supplier company and some work is being pushed in (non-vat) directions that it shouldn't!
I've asked them for a link to the legislation but I've already drafted the disengagement letter this morning as Im fairly certain of whats going...
Thanks Jason, I had found a similar flow chart on the Ross Martin website and came to the same conclusion, but wanted to check that I wasn't mixing anything up!
Who the customer actually is could be another issue that I need to get to the bottom of, but they may end up an ex-client before I need to worry about that as its starting to look suspicious the more info I get from the client...
Thanks, I too believe the supplier needs to charge VAT in the traditional way but I'm coming up against strong opposition!
You've already spent longer than you should on this. Invoice him for the software (at cost) plus any actual work carried out eg payroll or VAT returns, refund them the difference and move on.
I blame Ir*s!
£388.75 for unlimited tax returns, dividend database and accounts seems very good value to me, IR*S or not...
I've just come on to post exactly the same. Filed a VR yesterday afternoon no problem but having issues today with exact same message