Just had to check this - seems a bit weird if you ask me. I have a cleaner, I pay a tenner an hour to a cleaning company, they pay the cleaner eight quid, and keep 2 for admin/contract fees etc.
The company have now written to me to tell me 'due to changes coming into effect by HMRC', I must now pay the cleaner direct, then pay them the admin fee separately, otherwise the cleaner looks like and employee of their company, and she is not, she is independent. First, I don't get it and second surely there is now a gap in a tax payment somewhere and I could end up owing it or maybe the disconcerting cleaner. The cleaner does the house and doesn't do the office as I'm always in it, but could it almost make her an employee? If I was a permie, I wouldn't care obviously, but something is telling me I should check this out in case she is now regarded as an employee - thought I guess her contract is with the cleaning co, much like mine with an agency?
Should I be concerned? (...and..breathe)
The company have now written to me to tell me 'due to changes coming into effect by HMRC', I must now pay the cleaner direct, then pay them the admin fee separately, otherwise the cleaner looks like and employee of their company, and she is not, she is independent. First, I don't get it and second surely there is now a gap in a tax payment somewhere and I could end up owing it or maybe the disconcerting cleaner. The cleaner does the house and doesn't do the office as I'm always in it, but could it almost make her an employee? If I was a permie, I wouldn't care obviously, but something is telling me I should check this out in case she is now regarded as an employee - thought I guess her contract is with the cleaning co, much like mine with an agency?
Should I be concerned? (...and..breathe)
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