Terms of Use

Last updated 13 August 2026

The rules for using gocis.co.uk. They are written to be read, so they say what this site is, and just as importantly what it is not.

These terms

These terms govern your use of gocis.co.uk. By using the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

GoCIS is operated by SideQuester, of 40 Bowling Green Lane, London, EC1R 0NE, United Kingdom. You can reach us at hello@gocis.co.uk.

How we handle your personal information is set out separately in our privacy policy, and what this site stores on your device is in our cookie policy. Both form part of these terms.

What this site is

GoCIS is CIS scheme accounting for UK construction trades.

We are not your accountant or your adviser

Nothing on this site is tax, financial, investment or legal advice. The guides and any figures shown are general information about how UK tax and accounting rules work, published for a general audience. None of it is a recommendation for your situation.

We are not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, so nothing here is financial or investment advice, and we are not offering to advise you on either.

Tax depends on facts we do not know about you, and the rules change. Before you act on anything you read here, check it with a qualified accountant or an appropriately regulated adviser. We are not liable for a decision you take on the basis of a page on this site without taking advice.

Reading this site, or sending us an enquiry, does not make us your accountant and does not create a professional relationship between us. That only starts if we agree it separately, in writing.

Enquiries, quotes and introductions

Sending us an enquiry is exactly that. It does not create a contract between us and it does not oblige either of us to go further. Please give us accurate details, and do not send us anything confidential that belongs to someone else.

This site may introduce you to another firm. That is what the enquiry form is for: we match you with a specialist rather than necessarily doing the work ourselves. We will tell you who you are being introduced to, and we do not pass your details to anyone in the background before that.

Those firms are independent of us. We do not provide their services, we are not responsible for the advice they give or the work they do, and your contract for it is with them and not with us. We may receive a fee for an introduction. Where we do, it never changes what you pay.

Acceptable use

You are welcome to read the site, use the tools on it, quote it with a link, and share it. You may not:

attempt to break, overload, probe or gain unauthorised access to the site or to any account that is not yours;
use the site unlawfully, or submit anything unlawful, abusive, or deliberately misleading;
use automated means to submit forms, or to generate volumes of requests that a person would not;
republish substantial parts of our content as your own.

Machines are welcome, on stated terms. This site publishes a machine-readable interface for AI assistants and agents, and our robots.txt carries the declaration Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no. In words: you may crawl this site for search, and you may read it to ground an answer to someone's question, including quoting it with attribution. You may not use it as training data for a model. Using the documented interfaces as intended is encouraged, and the restrictions above are not aimed at it.

Our content, and other people's names

The site, its text, its design and the logic behind any tool on it belong to us or to our licensors, and are protected by copyright and other rights. You may quote a short extract with a link back to the page you took it from. Anything more needs our written permission.

We are independent of HMRC. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of HMRC. We write about their rules and services, and we use their names only to say who we are writing about. Their names and marks belong to them, and their own guidance is always the authority on what they require.

Availability

We do not promise that the site will be available at any particular time or uninterrupted, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it without notice. We may also change what the site offers.

The site links to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or what they do with your information, and a link is not an endorsement.

Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Subject to that, and as far as the law allows:

the site and everything on it is provided as it is, without warranties of accuracy, availability or fitness for a particular purpose;
we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, loss of anticipated savings, loss of data, or any indirect or consequential loss; and
our total liability to you for all claims connected with this site is limited to the greater of the amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or 100 pounds.

If you are a consumer, you have legal rights that these terms do not affect, and nothing here takes them away.

Changes, and the law that applies

We may change these terms. The current version is always on this page with its date, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated version.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom, you may bring proceedings in your own jurisdiction.

If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply. Questions go to hello@gocis.co.uk.