[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Mist A Bit]

i dont keep anything like that. All records for inland rev ect i keep for 5 years.

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Jack Wallace]

If your work sheets have customers names and adresses on you cant just chuck them out.

Data protection laws say you need to destroy them.

I shred everything.

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Mist A Bit]

Isn't it meant to be 6 years?  Or even 7?

i`l have to check. maybe i`ve been chucking mine away to early

[Blue Frog Systems]

I box mine up, and stick them in the loft.

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[NJWindowCleaning]

Yeah you suppose to keep any records for 6 years as they can ask for up to that period. Like i had to show the last four years, two years ago. The records where bang on with there data.

[Steven Shoreditch]

 

[Ian Lancaster]

Daily work sheets are powerful evidence of what you have done.  If the revenue challenge your records and you can produce your day-to-day rough notes, a court is much more likely to accept these as genuine.

If you get an in depth enquiry from the revenue, they could be a godsend.  Save them.

[prestige cleaners]

I shred mine every month if poss, usually end up with 3 months backed up, lazy see!

[Paul Coleman]

Until recently, I had every job listed and amount paid going back to 1991.  They were stuck in the basck of a garage that needed a clearout.  When clearing out, I decided to only keep the stuff from this century.  So I have full details going back a decade.  Each year, I will shred another years worth - though the computer records will remain as they take up no space worth bothering about.  Within that paperwork is a photocopy of every cheque I have banked since I started scanning them a few years ago (6 per A4 sheet).
I believe that you need to keep details for seven years (six plus the one being worked currently).  It doesn't take up much room for me.  Just one decent sized box per year.  In fact, until I started photocopying cheques, I could comfortably fit one year into a standard A4 box file.
Bear in mind to keep the bank statements too and also the credit card ones if they may prove relevant.

[neil100]

The Inland revenue would want to see them if they ever investigate you for the simple reason its the first written eveidence of the work you have done that day.

Neil

[John Walker]

Daily work sheets are powerful evidence of what you have done.  If the revenue challenge your records and you can produce your day-to-day rough notes, a court is much more likely to accept these as genuine.

If you get an in depth enquiry from the revenue, they could be a godsend.  Save them.

I agree with Ian, having been there myself many years ago.  Having records to hand make a massive difference when dealing with an in depth enquiry.  I keep mine on a monthly basis along with all other relevant paperwork for that month.