Self employed documents

McKneff

dont stress yourself with it all, offer him the job as an employee, it he doestn want it, employ somebody else. Bet he snaps your hand off in the present climate.

Money_Grabber13579

If he has decided to become self-employed in order to get more allowances, HMRC will bar him from doing so. There are many criteria which must be met in order to be self-employed i.e. they will generally use their own tools (if this applies, it would be something like working in the kitchen but bringing his own saucepans with him!) Generally, they can't just work for the one customer all the time either.

In this case, I can't see HMRC allowing him to be self employed.

fengirl_2

If you have a couple of hours to spare, read this tax case:
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2007/SPC00599.html

Debt_Free_Chick

Hotel123 wrote: »

Hello,

I work in a Hotel as a Manager, I have a new recruit and they want to go self employed.

If you are employing this person, then they are employed - they can not choose to be self-employed.

As others have indicated, if you've taken this person on, on a "regular" basis you are employing them and should put them on to the payroll like any other employee.

PlutoinCapricorn

I too assumed at first that the new recruit would be doing odd jobs. This topic i.e. Self Employment is very popular right now, as other threads show. Sometimes it is the employer who suddenly tells the employee that they must be self employed as from now on, and again, "They just can't do that"!

Hotel, you must put the company's interests first. Tell the man that you did not realise exactly what was involved, ask him why he wants to work on an SE basis and say that it would cause problems for the hotel with HMRC. Your sector is one that will be targetted for checks more than others, because of the likelihood of illegal immigrants, cash in hand casual labour etc. Is there a company policy about employment?