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CIS Payroll for Contractors
Industry-leading HMRC-compliant CIS payroll
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WHAT WE DO
KEEPING YOUR PROJECTS MOVING
Our specialist CIS payroll service prevents project delays and issues by ensuring workers are paid accurately and on time with full compliance, keeping them satisfied and productive onsite where they're needed.
Services
Worker availability and continuity are essential to successful construction projects and your business's reputation. When payroll issues arise—whether payment delays, incorrect CIS deductions, compliance concerns, or employment status disputes—workers become dissatisfied and may leave sites or refuse future assignments. These disruptions damage client relationships, delay project completion, and create operational challenges.
We Become the Contractor, Supplying the Worker to Your Business
When you engage CIS workers through BoostPay, we assume the contractor position in your supply chain, directly supplying workers to your business under compliant Construction Industry Scheme arrangements. We act as Intermediary 1, taking on specific obligations for employment status determination and CIS compliance. In this critical role, we formally confirm each worker's self-employment status through rigorous assessment against HMRC's employment status tests, ensuring workers genuinely meet the criteria for self-employment.
This structure removes the substantial 'disguised employment' risk from your business. Disguised employment occurs when workers are treated as self-employed despite their working relationship having employment characteristics. If HMRC determines workers were incorrectly classified, your business could face backdated tax liabilities covering up to six years of PAYE and National Insurance contributions that should have been deducted, plus significant interest and penalties on top of these amounts. These retrospective costs can be financially devastating. By properly confirming genuine self-employment status from the outset, we protect your business from these considerable financial and regulatory risks.
Contracts Demonstrating Workers Are Not Supervised, Directed or Controlled
Our contracts between BoostPay and each self-employed worker are specifically structured to reflect genuine self-employment relationships. These contracts explicitly document that workers are not subject to supervision, direction, or control in how they perform their work—the critical factors HMRC examines when determining employment status for construction workers.
We verify each worker's self-employment status through comprehensive assessment of their actual working arrangements, not just contract terms. We gather evidence demonstrating that workers genuinely operate as independent businesses, including documenting their right of substitution—the ability to send a substitute to perform the work. We verify that workers operate without supervision, direction, and control in practice, ensuring the working reality matches the contractual documentation and creating a defensible position if HMRC questions employment status.
Continue Your Current Business Operations
This compliant structure doesn't require changes to how you operate. Our contracts with workers incorporate the rates you've agreed and your preferred payment frequency, maintaining your existing business arrangements. Worker pay continues through the Construction Industry Scheme with accurate CIS deductions calculated and remitted to HMRC monthly on the BoostPay CIS return, ensuring full regulatory compliance while freeing your time to focus on winning contracts and growing your construction business.
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Outsource My Payroll
Managing the payroll for your team is a complex task and takes you away from running your business. Remove the headache of payroll and save time and money by outsourcing the whole process to BoostPay.
Our industry-leading HMRC-compliant CIS payroll service removes the administrative burden from your business, saving both time and money. BoostPay contracts workers directly, eliminating 'disguised employment' risk while ensuring full compliance through our monthly CIS returns to HMRC. Our UK-based Customer Services team supports both you and your workers by phone, text, and email, while our simple contract with competitive and transparent rates gives you complete visibility of costs without hidden fees.
Workers benefit from comprehensive support and protection throughout their assignments. They can easily access pay statements for self-assessment tax returns and are included in BoostPay's monthly CIS return to HMRC, ensuring their tax affairs are properly managed. Workers are covered by BoostPay's public liability, professional indemnity, and personal accident insurance, providing valuable protection while working. Additionally, workers can continue to claim legitimate expenses on their self-assessment tax returns, maintaining the tax efficiency advantages of self-employment while benefiting from our compliant payment structure.
How we protect your business
Are your sub-contractors really self-employed?
Engaging sub-contractors is complicated and getting it wrong could put your business at risk with fines and disrution. Remove the risk of disguised employment and simplify worker payments
What about your CIS responsibilities?
The CIS Scheme defines how sub-contractors are paid with fines and penalties if you get it wrong. Remove the risk and make yourself the contractor of choice for workers
Are your workers compliant and legal?
Verifying ID, UTR and right to work documentation ensures your workforce is legal and removes bogus worker and modern slavery risk throughout an assignment
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