Always a red flag alert but I'm just doing annual books for a new client and have come across this problem. He's a subby and just spotted now it's because the firm he's subbying for is issuing the invoices for him. They also seem to be doubling up as a CIS deduction sheet
Obviously I'll be correcting him going forward but I would presume this isn't going to throw up any issues at HMRC in the event of an investigation once they are made aware of the reason?
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John
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Most people, by "sequential" would assume you mean the basic number sequence of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... 8987, 8988, 8989, and so on.
However, this is also a sequence: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34... and so on.
As is this: 2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29... and so on.
The HMRC website says (on VAT invoices) that they must have a "Unique invoice number that follows on from the last invoice" - it doesn't actually say they must be sequential, or that the sequence must be the simple base-10 counting sequence.
So I'm going to argue that the answer is "no, it won't - or shouldn't - be a problem"
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Vince M Hudd - Soft Rock Software
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I did mean 1,2,3, 4 etc. As an example for June and July 2016 I have 2057, 2060, 2062, 2064, 2085 and 2091. I'm not quite sure how sequential that is!!
But thanks also for pointing out that they don't have to increase by a single digit at a time, I always thought they did.
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John
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