Am disabled and have employed several carers in recent years. And one situation is coming back to bite me on the arse.
Employed my first ever carer last year mar-July approx, I wanted to set it up through a payroll company but they kept getting it wrong and making a massive amount of mistakes and basically I was too ill to deal with it SO I talked to the worker who said 'no problem I'll be self employed and get my husbands accountant to deal with it at the end of the year. Ok says I, is there anything I need to do? Oh no says she I'll do it all via the accountant...
So last I hear until I get a letter from her accountant demanding (rudely) a P45 for Ms employment period. And in the same post get a letter from HMRC to tell me I owe them £1500 employment tax which needs settling ASAP.
So, what to do? I know now what I should have done... Which is insist on seeing M's self employment codes and rewriting the original employment constract to change it to a self employment one.
But what now? Can I throw it back at their accountant and say there is no P45 as M was self employed for this period?
Or give it up as a bad loss and if so... Ignore the accountant, and deal with HMRC. Will I be able to pay it in installments? Say over 6 months? As I can do that ok, but don't have all the money up front.
Also my current carer has just asked to go self employed from sept salary, but I haven't chased her paperwork - what do I need her to set up and by when so the same doesn't happen again?
(argh)... Thanks so much
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Oh dear, any advice on employers tax liability?
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DoubleLifeIsALifeOfSorts · 13/11/2013 05:10
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