Paid too much!

[expat]

Obviously, he does not want to tell the agency they have paid him too much and pay the money back.

You may think that's obvious, but actually it isn't.

As for VAT: keep in mind that you do not "charge" VAT, you only collect it for the government. If they find out that you have not passed on all that you have collected, they will probably deal with you more leniently than Mr Corleone would. But not much.

[boredsenseless]

Oh for F$ck sake...

It isn't your money, its theirs, pay it back. (oh sorry I meant tell your mate to pay it back ).

Why do you think they shouldn't be paid it? Would you be happy if you overpaid a supplier and they were not professional/moral and honest enough to pay it back.

In fact I've been know to deliberately overpay suppliers sometimes just to work out who is honest as I can still ask for it back at any time up to six years after the payment was made.

You'll just look like a tw@t when they ask for it if you haven't told them, however you can always phone the MD of the agency and make his staff look like tw@ts whilst covering yourself in glory if you do the correct thing.

[thunderlizard]

Mm, ought to pay it back. A couple of K isn't worth looking like a dodgy trader to HMCE.

It does seem to be the norm these days for agencies to ignore the figure on your invoice and instead self-invoice themselves a figure taken completely out of the blue.