Lichfield is about fifteen minutes from us across the A5127.
We work with construction limited companies turning over between £500,000 and £5 million. Construction is all we do, which means we are not learning how CIS works on your time.
Working for homeowners changes everything
A lot of the building work around Lichfield is domestic. Extensions, conversions, high end refurbishment and work on older property. That matters more than people realise, because a private individual having work done on their own home is not a contractor under CIS and is an end user for VAT.
So the reverse charge does not apply to that work
You charge VAT the normal way on domestic jobs, exactly as you did before 2021. We still see firms that switched everything to reverse charge when the rules came in and have been getting it wrong on their domestic work ever since.
But CIS still catches you as a contractor
Not being caught as a subcontractor on domestic work does not let you off the other end. If you pay bricklayers, joiners, roofers or a groundworker for construction work, you are a contractor under the scheme and the verification and monthly return duties are yours.
What we handle
The same work wherever you are, and all of it built around construction rather than adapted for it.
- CIS accounting and returns, from verification through to the year end reconciliation
- Construction VAT, including the domestic reverse charge and end user status
- Payroll, run alongside CIS rather than separately from it
- Job costing, so you know which contracts made money while there is still time to act
- Cash flow forecasting built around retentions and payment terms
- Year end accounts and Corporation Tax
Not sure whether your work is inside the scheme?
Around a third of the trades we cover sit outside CIS, and most of them have been having deductions taken for years without knowing. Have a look at the trades we work with and find yours, or book a call and we will tell you either way.
Areas we cover
We work across the whole of the UK. These are the areas closest to the office, where we do the most work and where you can come in if you would rather sit down with somebody.
Common questions
We work mostly for homeowners. Does CIS still apply?
Not to the money coming in. A private individual having work done on their own home is not a contractor, so nothing is deducted from your invoices. It very much applies to the money going out. If you pay bricklayers, joiners or a groundworker, you are a contractor under the scheme and the duties are yours.
Should we be reverse charging on domestic work?
No. Homeowners are end users, so you charge VAT the normal way. A lot of firms switched everything over when the rules came in and have been getting their domestic invoices wrong ever since.