I know that I shouldn't keep sneaking on here during exam season but I did see this post (and a second posting of the same content) earlier and after scratching my head for a couple of mins gave up and went did some more revision.
Diona, if this is a serious post I think that you need to pan out your question a lot more as to what you are actually looking for?
I toyed with the idea that you were looking for a format for an invoice but I'm sure that it's something more complex than that.
Please post what you actually need in simple terms so that even I understand it and also the context that you need it in and I'm sure that one of us on here will be more than happy to help out with your query.
kind regards,
Shaun.
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Sorry everybody, the wording my question really sounds a bit weird and unclear but I was in a hurry a while ago.
A friend of mine applied for working tax credit in March. Basically his business is as a self emplyed builder. We talked earlier today and he was wondering how to reply to an HMRC letter which requested from him a weekly breakdown of his working hours as a builder. I'd like to help him but I'm at a loss how this type of documents should look like. Are there some standard samples uploaded online?
cheers for the clarification. I can see your dilema now.
HMRC never really seem to appreciate that as self employed one week you can be doing 50+ hours per week then the following it might be less than 20.Of course, that doesn't fit with the ideal of an employee working a flat 35 hours per week.
I'm no expert on tax credits and nothing that I say here should in any way be construed as advice but for a starting point here's some information from the HMRC website to get you started
If you're self-employed
Put down the number of hours you normally spend working in your business, either on work billed to the client or its related activity, for example:
trips to wholesalers and retailers visits to potential clients time spent on advertising cleaning the business premises cleaning a vehicle used as part of the business, for example a taxi book-keeping research work
If you work from home, include time spent travelling to see customers.
If you have only just become self-employed, use the number of hours you normally expect to work in a week
Hope that this helps.
Here are a couple of links that might help as well :
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It doesn't help when the call centre is manned by people who are mainly idiots. I have never seen a government department that is so chaotic, it recently has taken me 5 phone calls to complete what should have been a simple renewal for a client. For some reason, they couldn't get their head around the fact that my client has a job with an employer and gets paid under the PAYE scheme, and operates a little business part time and is therefore self-employed as well. I mean, it really isn't rocket science but between them taking down the wrong figures, and one guy declaring her SMP as a taxable benefit, there's been nothing but hassle. Their training obviously isn't up to much.
Just editing, looking as the post again, has anyone ever heard of such a thing as a timesheet for the self-employed? It's a load of bull! You could write whatever you liked on it and they wouldn't know any better. Waste of time for all involved, but try telling the Tax Credit dept that.
-- Edited by mushroom on Saturday 18th of June 2011 04:54:39 PM
or is this another one of those weird ones??
