Self-Employment

You can only contract with Sprite under our CIS arrangements if you are genuinely self-employed. 

There are a number of tests to determine if you are self employed and in order to contract for Sprite and be paid under the CIS regulations you and Sprite must be satisfied that you are in genuine self-employment. 

HMRC provides guidance on how to tell wether you meet the self employment tests or not and this can be found on the HMRC website which you may find useful please click here to link to view the guidance.  At Sprite we consider four key principals in determining your status and we will ask you to complete a work status questionnaire during your registration process.  The key indicators we consider are: control, financial risk, mutuality of obligations, and substitution.

As a guide if you can answer yes to the following questions it is likely that you are self-employed.

• Having been provided with site instructions you provide your services without the need for a high level of supervision.
• You do not have to accept work offered to you, and can reject offers of work without compromising any future work.
• You may send a substitute worker to site to do work in your place, albeit that this worker may have to be approved in advance.
• You provide your own tools and equipment as required.
• You decide your own hours of work, including whether to start early or finish late in accordance with site opening times and operational requirements.
• If a job is not done to a satisfactory standard you will correct any defects without additional pay.
• The work you undertake is normally of a temporary nature that can be terminated or cancelled without notice.
• You regularly work for different clients.

If having read the above you feel you may not be self employed please call us and we will discuss our Umbrella option with you.

Please note that self employment is not a matter of choice but is dependent on the manner and the circumstances under which you provide your services.  Status can vary from assignment to assignment depending on the types of work you do and the way in which you work.  We will therefore ask you to consider these questions before starting work on each new assignment.