The high profile case involving Lorraine Kelly’s successful tax tribunal victory over IR35 shows that HMRC doesn’t understand its own tax legislation, says the IPSE.
Presenter Lorraine Kelly won her case against the HMRC tax bill of £1.2 million for her ITV breakfast show between September 2012 and July 2017.
Interestingly, it’s the fourth of five IR35 tax cases that HMRC have lost since the start of last year.
Andy Chamberlain, IPSE’s Deputy Director of Policy, commented, “What this judgement hammers home irrefutably is that HMRC are completely in the dark about their own tax legislation.
“Lorraine Kelly’s case is the fourth of five IR35 cases that HMRC have lost since 2018. It is now clear that they have wrongly been hounding many BBC and ITV presenters over a tax law they do not understand themselves.”
He added, “The government, however, has said that from April 2020, private businesses across the UK will have to determine the IR35 status of their contractors.
“This judgement should be a wake-up call to government that it cannot expect businesses to understand a tax law that it cannot even implement itself.”
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