Tell us your CIS status

If you work as a subcontractor under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS), contractors deduct tax from your payments before you're paid. Telling BusyBee Hub your CIS status means we record the right deduction rate automatically.

1. Go to Settings → Organisation. Only the business owner can change this, and only on a sole trader account.

2. Under Construction Industry Scheme, switch on I'm a CIS subcontractor, then under My CIS status choose the option that matches your situation with HMRC:

• Registered, contractors deduct 20% from your labour.
• Not registered, contractors deduct 30% from your labour.
• Gross payment status, nothing is deducted and you handle the tax yourself through Self Assessment.

3. There's no Save button here: each choice is saved as soon as you make it. This updates how new invoices calculate the deduction shown to contractors, and how your CIS summary adds up.

If your status with HMRC changes, come back here and update it; past invoices already recorded keep the deduction rate that applied when you created them.

Once CIS is on, invoices to contractors show the deduction and the amount payable, and Tax → CIS keeps track of every deduction and statement.