Self Employment a Mess Help!!!

kazwookie

You've been ripped off by this man.

I bet HMRC have never heard of you.

dimestorediamond

It's not really an upside, as if OP needs another hairdressing job (she says she young so I am going to assume newly qualified) then she really needs to prove that she worked there. It's a really hard industry to get a job in if you haven't got a good client history.

macca1974

I really sympathise as this sounds like a horrible situation. It also sounds to me (and I'm not an accountant) that you aren't self employed at all. If you get a fixed salary for a fixed number of hours, that sounds to me like you are employed. Just out of interest, do you have to provide your own hair products etc, or are these paid for by the company? Can you pick and chose the days that you work? Could you drop a days work and go and work for someone else? Because if you can't then it would appear to me to me that you are employed (although I'd stress again I'm not an accountant!).

If you are earning £13K a year (£250 for 52 weeks), then tax / NI should be around £1,200 a year (so £23 per week or so) assuming you were employed and have a standard tax code.

I think you need to speak to your boss and find out what the situation is. If you are employed then he should be providing you with payslips, P60's etc and dealing with your paye / NI, if you are self employed it is your responsibility to pay your taxes not his. That being the case, I would be asking for my £5,200 in tax that he has stopped from your payments for the past couple of years which frankly should be enough to pay an accountant to sort things out with HMRC and pay any fines that might be forthcoming.

If you can't get your tax back then you need to take some proper advice (maybe CAB or someone like that?).

Good luck

paulturner

Employers have to give you a payslip, if they don't then it is pretty certain they are not employing you and you are self employed.

https://www.gov.uk/payslips

dimestorediamond

paulturner wrote: »

Employers have to give you a payslip, if they don't then it is pretty certain they are not employing you and you are self employed.

https://www.gov.uk/payslips

Not necessarily true. If you are not able to dictate your own hours, the work you do etc, you are not SE, you are employed.