Wages!!

Andystriker

The employee is not withholding wages if they are offering to pay you by Chq payable to you or in cash.

When paying to third party, I can see that if it is a relative then no authorities would be interested. However if I, Andystriker, asked my employers to pay my wages into the account of Mr. Never in Doubt who is not related to me or does not live with me, then although HMRC or the Benefits Agency may not investigate, I would not be surprised if they did.

peachyprice

But they won't.
On what grounds do you think they would/should?

Andystriker

Because as soon as the money gets handed to Mr. Never In Doubt it is his money and would surely count as his income. Then either I Andystriker or Mr Never in Doubt could (Not saying we are, but could) be tax evading.

Anyway Never In Doubt can I have your bank Account details, I want you to look after my wages for me, but don't tell anyone.:beer:

peachyprice

But HMRC don't tax you based what is paid into your bank account, they don't know what is being paid into your bank account.

Or is this part of a bigger conspiracy theory :eek:

Andystriker

Yes, myself, Never in doubt and Barclaysmanager are in it together.;)

peachyprice

And HMRC too? :rotfl:

Andystriker

No don't tell them for goodness sake.:eek:

Extant

Andystriker wrote: »

The employee is not withholding wages if they are offering to pay you by Chq payable to you or in cash.

Bottom line is that the employer has a contractual obligation to remunerate their employee. Unless there is a specific clause in their contract to pay by a certain method (i.e. Barclays requires that I hold an account with Barclays) then a company's policy means nothing, and a refusal to pay IS an unauthorized deduction of the entire salary.

Cheque is even more of an argument point - if the company insists on paying a cheque in the employee's name, then it may cause problems with their bankers.

For further self-example, my UK bank accounts are in the name of Scott Fitzgerald (not my real name, fictional example) as they were set up with my UK passport, which is in the name of Scott Fitzgerald. My employment/human resources with Barclays, however, is in the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald - done from my US passport. As such, a cheque given in my professional name would rightly be refused to my personal account if crossed account payee.

Making "policy" is all very well and nice, but it quickly boils down to nothing in reality. Money is money is money - and it's owed to the employee.

When paying to third party, I can see that if it is a relative then no authorities would be interested. However if I, Andystriker, asked my employers to pay my wages into the account of Mr. Never in Doubt who is not related to me or does not live with me, then although HMRC or the Benefits Agency may not investigate, I would not be surprised if they did.

HMRC will, I promise you, have no interest if it's taxed at source and you can show your own usage. If your salary of X is credited to A account and then withdrawn in full, nobody will care - it's clearly just been used, as far as can be reasonably, solely for the purposes of receiving a credit.

If it's two separate people, with no reasonable connection, then you're looking more at suspicious activity than anything HMRC would ever care about.

jonesMUFCforever

omen666 wrote: »

What action could they take? How would they know? and you dont say anything to substantiate your comments on Money Laundeing above?

Fvcking hate it when clueless peeps post something they know nothing about.

I know plenty and have seen accounts blocked and closed because of this.

jonesMUFCforever

never-in-doubt wrote: »

Omen has a habit of speaking like that to other users......

You're wasting your time! However, I agree, jonesMUFCforever Has very valid points - maybe blunt but that's what makes him stand out! On that note, wonder how he'll be feeling with the news that the 'crock' Owen is now a Red Devil? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

If he doesn't trip over his wallet he could just be the best signing of the summer and he could be back in the England team next summer in the World cup.