AGENCIES
Payroll for self-employed workers
Fully-Protected SE Agency Payroll
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WHAT WE DO
Protecting Your Self-Employed Payroll
When you engage self-employed workers through our service, BoostPay assumes the position of the contractor, directly supplying workers to your business under compliant arrangements. We become what HMRC terms "Intermediary 1," taking on specific obligations regarding employment status determination and regulatory compliance.
Services
We Become the Contractor, Supplying the Worker to Your Business
We formally confirm each worker's self-employment status through thorough assessment against HMRC's employment status tests, ensuring workers genuinely meet the criteria for self-employment. By establishing ourselves as Intermediary 1 and properly confirming self-employment status, we remove the 'disguised employment' risk from your agency.
Disguised employment occurs when workers are treated as self-employed despite the working relationship having employment characteristics. If workers are incorrectly classified, your business could face backdated tax liabilities covering up to six years of PAYE and National Insurance contributions, plus interest and penalties. By properly structuring the engagement, we protect your agency from these significant financial risks.
Contracting & Supervision, Direction and Control
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—critical factors HMRC examines when determining employment status.
We verify each worker's status through comprehensive assessment of their working arrangements, gathering evidence that demonstrates they genuinely operate as independent businesses. We document that workers have the right of substitution and verify they are not under supervision, direction, and control in practice, ensuring the reality matches the documentation.
This rigorous verification creates a defensible position if HMRC questions employment status. Our contracts and procedures reflect current HMRC guidance and case law, ensuring compliant worker engagements from the outset.
Continue to Provide the Work You Currently Do
This compliant structure doesn't require you to change how you operate. You continue finding clients, matching workers to assignments, and managing relationships that drive your agency's success. We handle the contractual and compliance aspects while you focus on commercial activities.
Our contracts with workers include the rates you've agreed with clients and your preferred payment frequency. Workers receive payment on expected schedules, clients are billed according to existing arrangements, and you continue managing business relationships as before.
This frees up significant time within your agency. Rather than managing complex compliance requirements, you can focus on growing your business—winning new clients, expanding into new sectors, or recruiting additional workers. The compliance responsibility sits with us while you concentrate on running and developing your agency.
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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 payroll service assures worker self-employment status through detailed compliance checks conducted throughout each assignment, with flexible products available based on individual worker assessments. Our UK-based Customer Services team supports both you and your workers, while we provide BACS and same-day payment options for operatives along with same-day remittance advice and payslips accessible through a secure worker portal. This comprehensive service, offered at competitive and transparent rates, removes payroll administration from your business, saving you both time and money while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
Are You Fully Protected?
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 disguised employment risks and simplify worker payments
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
Are your processes efficient and accurate?
Payroll processing and error correction takes up valuable time which can be a drag on business growth and worker morale
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