Client Story
How we got a Canning Town CIS groundworker £6,700 back across two years
Client M is a self-employed groundworker working CIS on the major construction sites around Canning Town and the Royal Docks. He'd had 20% deducted at source for two years and filed minimal returns without claiming most of his legitimate expenses, leaving substantial refunds unclaimed.
We reconstructed his expenses from bank statements and receipts: van costs (mileage method), tools and equipment, PPE, materials, phone proportion, CSCS card and plant tickets, and accountancy. We re-filed both years' self-assessments claiming his personal allowance and the full legitimate expenses against the CIS-deducted income.
Total outcome: refund of £6,700 across the two years after proper expense claims, and a clean ongoing process where Client M photographs receipts as he buys them and we file his refund promptly each year.