Probably, it was the plumbers this time last year. my local heating engineer (gets very upset if you call him a plumber) said if any are now investigated & are found to have done undeclared cash jobs HMRC do a guesstimate on any other potential cash jobs you might have done & stiff you with a tax bill.
I know of a plumber/heating engineer that got done about 15 years ago and they done exactly what your saying. They do a guess and that's what you owe.
Do you mean like the Tatters do , who drive round the streets every day collecting scrap iron and obviously have a collector's license. ?
Do you have anything to declare , Sparky 72.? :Blushing
The phrase you are looking for is:
Hello spark_72, welcome to the forum. Why would you think its worth taking part? Do you have undisclosed earnings you need to get straight with HMRC? Who has just told you and what bought the conversation up? I cannot see any logical reason for any person who has been filing their TAX assessment forms correctly for may years, (possibly with the assistance of an employed accountant), to need to consider this. I have removed the advertising link for the private tax services company that you included as this would be against the forum T&C's (especially if you have interests with the said company). The HMRC website link carries sufficient information I think.
I think the logic of this assumption is flawed on many counts. As the information gathered would have to be sifted and sorted to establish which jobs are actually self employed sparks jobs. When you consider the fact that Part-P only covers a proportion of domestic work and that work may not even be carried out by self employed electricians, it could be done by builders, kitchen fitters, bathroom fitters, gardeners etc. Or DIY persons themselves or a large company with employed electricians and that not all self employed sparks work is domestic anyway what about their commercial jobs? Then when you also consider there is not even one single point of reference. If you include all of the councils and contractor scheme providers. It is a long way from a nice long easy paper trail. Rather it would be a complex pile of individual lits that would need extensive sorting to get to a list of self employed sparks work. Whereas things like the sub-contractors CIS is more the HMRC mode of working, put the onus on a contractor to file info if not get penalty. Part P is a long way short of a useful HMRC tool.
What about non notifiable domestic jobs and commercial jobs.....
