Check that the company has no outstanding returns (CIS300) in its capacity as a contractor within CIS.
The full list of all ten top tips is available on HMRC’s website.
CIPP survey: Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) returns – paper or online?
6 September 2013
Currently Contractors can submit their CIS300 monthly return either online (75%), using the HMRC CIS Online service or using commercial and bespoke software, or the returns can be submitted on paper (25%).
The CIPP policy team have put together a brief survey to try to find out from members why the paper option is still chosen by contractors.
Thank you in advance for sharing your valuable time and experiences and reasons with us.
If you have anything that you would like to add in terms of the administrative burden of operating CIS the policy team would value hearing from you, please email Samantha Mann .
SFO's sector-based compliance drive to focus on construction industry
11 November 2013
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has indicated that it will crack down on corruption in the construction industry as part of a new, sector-focused approach to compliance.
Out-Law.com reports:
SFO Director David Green set out the agency's new approach as part of a speech at the Pinsent Masons and Legal Week Regulatory Reform and Enforcement Conference. He said that the use of "sectoral sweeps" would enable the SFO's intelligence-gathering capabilities to be "far more effective". Anti-corruption expert Barry Vitou of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the singling out of the construction sector was a "pointed and clear warning to the industry". It follows the publication of a survey of construction professionals in which 35% of respondents had been offered a bribe or incentive on at least one occasion and 49% believed that corruption was still "common" within the industry. "The warning of a focus on the construction sector and public works contracts is in line with the recently-published Serious Organised Crime strategy paper which announced that focus would be on steps to reduce fraud on Government," said Vitou, writing on his website thebriberyact.com. "This makes sense in these cash-strapped times." The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) published the results of its second survey about crime and corruption in the construction sector earlier this month. Its findings, based on a survey of over 700 construction professionals, found that "little progress" had been made in the sector since its last such research in 2006, despite the introduction of the Bribery Act in the meantime. "What we have found is that cultural practices and the consequences of the recession have places a greater strain on companies to sometimes engage in adverse practices as a survival mechanism," said Michael Brown, CIOB deputy chief executive. "If the UK is going to
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