Who should cheque be paid to ?

Alias_Omega

£5000 business cheque..


£4500 cash.. (bank transfer to any account you want..) <-- just joking

brightontraveller

phill99 wrote: »

He's committing an act of fraud and you are party to it.

Absolute rubbish he hasn’t broken any contract or law neither has the client you can have payment made out to whomever you like:rotfl:

McKneff

And what happens if something goes wrong with the work further along.


You have no proof you paid into his business for the work


Personally, I would not make the cheque payable to his wife.

FOREVER21

brightontraveller wrote: »

Absolute rubbish he hasn’t broken any contract or law neither has the client you can have payment made out to whomever you like:rotfl:

If he is registered for VAT and is charging VAT as he appears to be, then he needs to issue a VAT invoice, the total bill then becomes payable to the company.
He then puts the invoice etc through his books pays the VAT (or claims accredit if overall he is entitled to do).
To seek payment of the total to his wife may in fact suggest he is trying not to declare the VAT, that would make it a prosecutable offence and HMRC would pursue him if they were made aware of it.

Alias_Omega

^Ring HMRC for advice...

Mojisola

JethroUK wrote: »

He's actually entitled to get paid however the fork he wants

If I were the builder and was challenged I would not accept a cheq at all but instead demand cash

And if the client refused and said that he'd only pay with a cheque in the business name after you've provided a vat invoice, what would you do?

phill99

brightontraveller wrote: »

Absolute rubbish he hasn’t broken any contract or law neither has the client you can have payment made out to whomever you like:rotfl:

Now you are talking ribbish.

See McKneffs post above.

MikeMouse

Its dodgy - if its a cheque to his wife with no VAT invoice I would not pay him the VAT and save myself a grand.

It does look like the whole transaction is been hidden from the tax authorities. So thats a grand extra he is taking for VAT with no VAT invoice. And probably no tax paid on the other 5K as well.

EssexExile

OP has an invoice, no problem for OP.

Mojisola

tdubya wrote: »

I've asked for an invoice for the work which he has emailed to me which is fine at £5,000 plus VAT, totalling £6,000 ish. No problem with this amount but here's the rub..

Instead of asking for the cheque to be made payable to the company, he has asked for the trip to be made payable to his wife. The email invoice doesn't quote a VAT number. We've asked for a proper invoice on headed paper which presumably will show the vat registration number.

EssexExile wrote: »

OP has an invoice, no problem for OP.

An email without VAT details isn't the same as an invoice.