Not been paid

[Helpme17]

So I’m self employed and I have got so advice about my constant late payments will they just laugh at me or dose this stand?

My Final Demand
I am claiming the following amounts:

1. Unpaid Wages: For the six weeks I was unpaid during the summer holiday in July 2024: £900.
2. Travel Expenses: Travelling 60 miles
3. every Tuesday over the past year, calculated at the HMRC-approved mileage rate of 45p per mile: £1,296.
4. Late Payment Fees: For six months of late payments (October, November, December, January, February, and March), using a standard fee of £40 per late payment: £240.
5. Compensation for Financial Stress:
6. Considering the financial burden and significant stress caused by these delays, I am claiming £300 in compensation.

Total Final Amount• .£2736.

Excuse me not being my normal self. 6 weeks since I’ve been paid so no im
possbly not with it! No need to be rude

Why are there separate points 5 and 6?

Your posts just don’t make sense.

If you’re self-employed you can’t claim for the majority of the things you’re asking for.

Mileage is something you claim on your tax return at the end of the year.

You don’t receive any wages.

You don’t get paid for not working over the summer holidays.

You can’t claim any costs for travel time unless it’s in the contract you wrote and that your clients have signed and agreed to.

Yes, you can charge a late payment fee but additional compensation because you’re stressed? I don’t think so - you should have just stopped working for them the first time they didn’t pay you on time - that’s one of the beauties of being self employed, surely?

Reading your previous post - do you do all your work for this one client and at times directed and ordered by them?? As if so they are falling foul of IR35 and you aren’t really self employed as such. If that’s the case they need to have you on payroll

Stick to one thread. Read the Government pages about self employment and work out what your argument is. Have you already sent the demands that you’ve been told aren’t relevant?

Rude… don’t forget you don’t need to reply

again the numbers where copy and pasted from Google hence I asked

i got my answer. It’s £40
per late fee .

@Helpme17

If you are truly self-employed you do not [almost by definition] get "wages".

You possibly need to consult HRMC and/or ACAS as to your true status.

Nobody cares where you copy and pasted something from, so repeating it over and over doesn't work. You have been asked a number of very specific questions about the terms of the conract that you have with the school and have failed to answer any of them. The only person being rude is you, and your posts are making little sense in realtion to what you are being asked. People are trying to help you and all you are doing is telling them nothing to do so, then accusing them of being rude.

Unless you have a contract stipulating these costs and fees then you are not owed them. Do you have a contract which you agreed with the school and are these items in that contract? You cannot simply make things up in retrospect, and it looks like that is what you are doing.

@ShhhhhItsASurprise I guess you are right. My H does projects for a particular high profile client where he doesn’t get paid sometimes for 8 months as he’s paid at particular points of delivery and these aspects can be delayed due to the clients end and clearances etc - he is well paid when he is paid but these aspects nature of the beast means it’s quite erratic- but he is aware of this- consequently we plan accordingly and it’s not our only client or our major client.
I do find it a bit shit when you have lower paid jobs ( and I’m presuming this is) paying people in this way as it’s clearly done to avoid certain things such as employers tax/paid holidays/sickness and yet clearly the people concerned doing the jobs aren’t usually in a position to go unpaid for months at a time nor any agreed expenses covered off quickly.

Thanks