One London subcontractor said that his company was still without sufficient CIS25 vouchers despite repeated requests for additional ones.
The vouchers must be sent to the Revenue by subcontractors whenever a payment is made to them by a client or a main contractor.
A director of the firm said: 鈥淭he Revenue needs to sort this out; I鈥檓 sick of all the running around having to explain to companies that the Revenue isn鈥檛 doing its job. It makes us look like cowboys.鈥�
Liz Bridge, head of taxation at the Construction Confederation, said the Revenue should set up a dedicated phone line to deal with the voucher problem, but added that she did not anticipate any other problems with the scheme.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think we will all be screaming at each other come the next big payment date on 12 November,鈥� she said.
However, she added: 鈥淥ne established builder hasn鈥檛 got a CIS5 card yet and he made his application back in January.鈥�
