Declaring tax from a second (cash in hand) job

PolishBigSpender

bdon wrote: »

cash in hand is of course illegal

Since when?

Certainly nothing wrong with receiving cash in the hand, provided it's accounted for properly. I pay people who work on my UK property cash in hand - they do some work for me, and I pay them. How they choose to account for this is entirely up to them.

McKneff

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Since when?

Certainly nothing wrong with receiving cash in the hand, provided it's accounted for properly. I pay people who work on my UK property cash in hand - they do some work for me, and I pay them. How they choose to account for this is entirely up to them.

Do you account for them in your wages system though.

LittleVoice

McKneff wrote: »

Do you think it means he was neither employed nor self-employed?

that was my understanding. Where i come from 'cash in hand' means not declaring it to anyone. I can only go on my own perceptions (different from presumptions) from somebodys post.

Consider this.

I have not declared it to the taxman yet.
and
I have not declared it to the taxman.......yet.

Different perception - yes?

Sorry, if you work you are either an employee or you are self-employed. That's a statement of what the contractual relationship is - either a contract of service or a contract for services. I know of no other. The method of payment has nothing to do with it. Even agency workers will working on one of these two types.

McKneff

Okay, stallholder asks me to help out for a week on his veg stall on the market.

At the end of the week he gives me £50 out of his till, cash in hand, no questions asked, he says nothing to anybody, least of all the taxman, i walk away, say nothing to anybody, least of all the taxman.

Not legitimately employed. both parties committing fraud by saying nothing to anyone.

Not self employed, the HMRC wouldnt allow it as it wouldnt fit the criteria.