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Check whether a worker should be employed or self-employed
You pay someone as a "self-employed" helper, but they work set hours, only for you, with your tools. Use HMRC's own checking tool properly and understand the answer.
The problem
Getting employment status wrong can mean back tax and National Insurance, plus rights the person was owed. Calling someone a contractor doesn't make them one.
The outcome
You pay someone as a "self-employed" helper, but they work set hours, only for you, with your tools. Use HMRC's own checking tool properly and understand the answer.
The prompt · ChatGPT
Help me prepare to check a worker's employment status. What they do: [work] How it works: [who sets hours, where they work, who provides tools, can they send someone else, do they work for others, how they're paid]
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A short example
You pay someone as a "self-employed" helper, but they work set hours, only for you, with your tools. Use HMRC's own checking tool properly and understand the answer.
The prompt · Grok
Help me prepare to check a worker's employment status. What they do: [work] How it works: [who sets hours, where they work, who provides tools, can they send someone else, do they work for others, how they're paid]
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A short example
You pay someone as a "self-employed" helper, but they work set hours, only for you, with your tools. Use HMRC's own checking tool properly and understand the answer.
You describe how the person works: hours, control, tools, substitution, other clients.
The assistant asks the kind of questions HMRC's tool asks, so you have the answers ready.
You get your answers organised, how to run the HMRC check and what to do with the result.
What happens
Use Grok Bot to check whether a worker should be employed or self-employed
You pay someone as a "self-employed" helper, but they work set hours, only for you, with your tools. Use HMRC's own checking tool properly and understand the answer.
Tools
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