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Smugley
Hi all, any of you out there working self-employed care to comment on this? I've been doing occasional work with a plumber. He takes on bathroom renovations and gets me in for a few days for the electrical bits. Up until now I have invoiced the homeowner directly, so in effect the only business arrangement between me and the plumber is that he recommended my services to the client, after which my contract is between the homeowner and myself, the homeowner not being regarded as a contractor under the scheme.
However he was asking me to invoice him for my hours and materials and he will just give the client one invoice. He is also self-employed. I believe this means that we will both need to register with the Construction Industry Scheme - he as contractor and me as subcontractor. He doesn't know anything about this - said he thought it only applied if your business income was over a certain amount.
In a similar thread on here recently someone stated that the CIS did not apply if the work was only occasional. I would only do maybe one job with him every month or two. Is that true? I couldn't see this anywhere in the CIS information booklet.
Cheers
However he was asking me to invoice him for my hours and materials and he will just give the client one invoice. He is also self-employed. I believe this means that we will both need to register with the Construction Industry Scheme - he as contractor and me as subcontractor. He doesn't know anything about this - said he thought it only applied if your business income was over a certain amount.
In a similar thread on here recently someone stated that the CIS did not apply if the work was only occasional. I would only do maybe one job with him every month or two. Is that true? I couldn't see this anywhere in the CIS information booklet.
Cheers
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