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New job wage confusion!!

I have just taken on a cleaning job working between 4 & 5 hours per week. He paid me in cash, when I asked if he needed my NI number he said no but then said that it is going through the books. I don't really understand. I didn't get a wage slip and he has none of my details. How can this go through the books???

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  • LittleVoice
    LittleVoice Posts: 8,974 Forumite
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    I have just taken on a cleaning job working between 4 & 5 hours per week. He paid me in cash, when I asked if he needed my NI number he said no but then said that it is going through the books. I don't really understand. I didn't get a wage slip and he has none of my details. How can this go through the books???

    Does he know your name? Does he know where you live?

    How much do you receive for a week's work?
  • Does he know your name? Does he know where you live?

    How much do you receive for a week's work?
    Yes he knows my name and address. I get around £40 per week.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    There's no tax nor NI to pay on that amount.... he's just being lazy not providing you with a wage slip, or maybe he'll give you bunches of them at a time at some future point, or monthly.

    Ask him.
  • Yes he knows my name and address. I get around £40 per week.
    Seems a bit dodgy..£10 an hour (or thereabouts)..
  • TrickyWicky
    TrickyWicky Posts: 4,025 Forumite
    Maybe he's putting it down as an expense and relying on you to be self employed.

    You really need to speak to your boss and clarify it as we can only guess - we can't tell you what your boss is doing.
  • Notmyrealname
    Notmyrealname Posts: 4,003 Forumite
    I have just taken on a cleaning job working between 4 & 5 hours per week. He paid me in cash, when I asked if he needed my NI number he said no but then said that it is going through the books. I don't really understand. I didn't get a wage slip and he has none of my details. How can this go through the books???

    Because of the low amount you're earning, no employers NI or tax is due as the lower limit it starts being paid is £107/week therefore there is no need to get your NI number although technically the employer should do to verify your right to work in the UK.

    It can go through the books as a wages expense.

    No fraud is being committed here.
  • Notmyrealname
    Notmyrealname Posts: 4,003 Forumite
    annie1975 wrote: »
    Seems a bit dodgy..£10 an hour (or thereabouts)..

    What is dodgy about being paid £10/hr?
  • chrisbur
    chrisbur Posts: 4,270 Forumite
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    Because of the low amount you're earning, no employers NI or tax is due as the lower limit it starts being paid is £107/week therefore there is no need to get your NI number although technically the employer should do to verify your right to work in the UK.

    It can go through the books as a wages expense.

    No fraud is being committed here.

    The employer should get a P46 completed by the new employee though, and as the P46 requires the NI number to be filled in I would guess that this has not been done.
  • anamenottaken
    anamenottaken Posts: 4,198 Forumite
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    Because of the low amount you're earning, no employers NI or tax is due as the lower limit it starts being paid is £107/week therefore there is no need to get your NI number although technically the employer should do to verify your right to work in the UK.

    It can go through the books as a wages expense.

    No fraud is being committed here.

    An NI number does not prove the right to work in the UK.
  • Yawn....

    Correct on its own it doesn't however it is pretty much the norm to request it when doing a verification process.
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