Self employed Payroll

Protecting your self-employed payroll

Engaging self-employed workers can give your business valuable flexibility, but getting employment status and compliance wrong can create significant financial and regulatory risk.

When you engage self-employed workers through BoostPay, we assume the contractor position within the supply chain and act as Intermediary 1, taking responsibility for key employment status and compliance obligations.

We assess each worker's circumstances against HMRC employment status requirements, helping establish that individuals being paid as self-employed genuinely meet the appropriate criteria.

That gives your business a straightforward way to manage worker payments while reducing the administrative and compliance burden on your internal team.

Helping protect against disguised employment

Simply describing someone as self-employed doesn't necessarily make them self-employed.

Disguised employment occurs when an individual is treated as self-employed despite the reality of their working relationship having characteristics of employment. Incorrect classification can expose businesses to backdated tax liabilities, interest and penalties.

BoostPay conducts detailed employment status assessments to establish whether workers genuinely meet the criteria for self-employment.

By putting the appropriate contractual arrangements and supporting evidence in place, we help create a clear and defensible position around worker status and reduce the risk associated with incorrect classification.

Assessing how your workers really work

Employment status isn't determined by a contract alone. The reality of the working relationship matters too.

Our assessment considers important factors including whether workers are subject to supervision, direction or control and whether they have a genuine right of substitution.

We gather and maintain evidence supporting the worker's self-employed status, helping ensure the contractual arrangement reflects how they actually operate in practice.

This provides greater confidence that your self-employed workforce is being engaged appropriately.

Keep operating the way you do today

Using BoostPay doesn't mean changing the commercial relationships that make your business work.

You can continue managing your clients, workers and assignments while we take care of the contractual, payroll and compliance requirements associated with your self-employed workforce.

Our arrangements incorporate agreed worker rates and preferred payment frequencies, helping workers continue to receive payments when expected without creating unnecessary disruption to your existing processes.

By removing much of the payroll and compliance administration, your team has more time to focus on customers, workers and growing the business.

Accurate, reliable payments

Once workers have been appropriately assessed and onboarded, BoostPay manages the payment process.

We offer BACS and same-day payment options, alongside same-day remittance advice and payslips available through a secure worker portal.

Our compliance checks continue throughout assignments, helping ensure worker arrangements remain appropriate rather than treating employment status as a one-off exercise.

With transparent rates and clear payment information, both your business and your workers have greater visibility and confidence throughout the process.

Protect your business and your workforce

Are your workers genuinely self-employed?
We assess worker status against HMRC requirements, helping reduce the financial and regulatory risks associated with disguised employment.

Are your workers compliant and verified?
ID, UTR and right-to-work documentation can be verified as part of the process, helping protect your business and workforce.

Are your processes efficient and accurate?
Outsourcing payroll processing and administration reduces the time your internal team spends managing payments, correcting errors and responding to worker queries.

UK-based support for you and your workers

Our UK-based Customer Support team is available to support both your business and your workers throughout the payment process.

Workers have access to clear payment information and can contact our team directly when questions arise, reducing the administrative burden on your own team.

Combined with our employment status assessments, compliance processes and reliable payment options, this gives you a simpler way to manage a flexible self-employed workforce.