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Chasing payments for the company I work for.  Construction industry so we all know what reputations builders have for cash in hand jobs!

The customer wants me to lose the invoice so they can avoid paying the VAT (we are VAT registered they are not).  The work carried out is regulated so has to registered with Gas Safe.  My boss told him I don't know how you run your company but in my company we don't just lose invoices.  He was going to carry out the work himself until a colleague of his pointed out he could go to prison for doing that work without qualifications/registration.

I already know that the end domestic customer has paid this person cash for the work carried out. 

This is what gives the construction industry a bad name. 



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I'm assuming he wants to pay your company less the VAT and you treat it as a cash in hand job.  Bad enough in the first place and one a company would be extremely unlikely to entertain, but after the invoice has been issued?

 



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That's pretty much it. The invoice has already been declared on the last VAT quarter.

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Per the heading in the title.....yes you can. If you suspect this is not a one off.

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