Client Story
How we got a Collier Row CIS plumber £5,500 back across two years
Client M is a self-employed plumbing and heating engineer working CIS for contractors across Havering, east London and Essex. He'd had 20% deducted at source for two years and filed basic returns himself 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, materials he supplied, PPE, Gas Safe registration, phone proportion, 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 £5,500 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.