Customers, COINS staff and HMRC gathered together in early summer for the Special Interest Group meeting to review the first two months of operation of the new Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) for tax compliance on payments to subcontractors. Awards were made for the first successful customer go-lives.

Well done to Neil Florence of NG Bailey who was the first in the UK with package software to complete the electronic verification of subcontractors using COINS and Vani Thasan of Byrne Bros for the similar honour of being the first to submit a CIS300 monthly return using COINS – both were presented with a magnum of champagne courtesy of COINS.

Congratulations to runners up: For the electronic verification; Angela Root - Kier Group, Vani Thasan - Byrne Bros, John Painter - Hopkins Homes, Dominic Urand - Trant Construction, Andrea Cornwell - Kier Residential. For the monthly return; Neil Florence - NG Bailey, David Webb - Volker Stevin, Angela Root