Hays paying on time sheets only.

[Not So Wise]

Stating the bleedin' obvious I know (or I assume), but paying on timesheets must be a bang to rights indicator for IR35.

Not really, that would be agent's internal processes. Nothing to do with contract (unless it said so, which I doubt) nor contractors working practices. As long as you actually supplied an invoice seriously doubt it would have a bearing

[Clippy]

Not really, that would be agent's internal processes. Nothing to do with contract (unless it said so, which I doubt) nor contractors working practices. As long as you actually supplied an invoice seriously doubt it would have a bearing

By the sounds of it, would not just raising an invoice suffice?

[MarillionFan]

By the sounds of it, would not just raising an invoice suffice?

Interestingly. They had just said I was missing a time sheet and so the invoice (i had sent didnt match) and they would like to delay for a week.

Bollocks! I'll change the invoice then and resend.

So obviously not quite as cut and dried as they like to think.

[NickFitz]

Stating the bleedin' obvious I know (or I assume), but paying on timesheets must be a bang to rights indicator for IR35.

Did you read the HMRC link I posted above? Self billing is primarily about accounting for VAT on the supply of good or services; it has nothing to do with PAYE or employment status.

[NickFitz]

Not really, that would be agent's internal processes. Nothing to do with contract (unless it said so, which I doubt) nor contractors working practices. As long as you actually supplied an invoice seriously doubt it would have a bearing

The whole point of self-billling is that you don't supply an invoice - they draw up the invoice and supply it to you along with the payment. Any invoice you supply is irrelevant in a self-billing arrangement.

Those whose agencies are operating self-billing (and many do) really ought to read HMRC's Self-billing guide.