Agency asking for details of my Accountant

[SueEllen]

Yes. I suppose that you are right. Thanks for being a voice of reason SueEllen. Perhaps I am being too "difficult". It still seems stupid to me though.

You are not being "difficult".

There are other ways to check these things but this is the easiest for the agency and they obviously think it's the cheapest, so yes definitely get the accountant to bill them.

[SueEllen]

Yes. I suppose that you are right. Thanks for being a voice of reason SueEllen. Perhaps I am being too "difficult". It still seems stupid to me though.

You are not being difficult.

The agency is obviously too stupid and too tight to do it another way so definitely get the accountant to bill them.

[Craig at Nixon Williams]

We sometimes receive questionnaires from agencies to check that we are not an MSC provider - it could be so that they can do this. The reason, I assume, that they are interested in this is because the MSC legislation includes debt transfer provisions where unpaid PAYE/NIC can be transferred to other third parties that have been involved in the provision of the worker (the agency).

[TheFaQQer]

The agency have stated that they require a reference from my accountant.

If you've already got the job, tell them to poke it.

Tell them you're in the process of changing accountants and will be doing it yourself from now on, but you are happy to send a reference as a company director.