{"id":2167,"date":"2024-12-18T20:22:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2024-12-18T20:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T20:22:07","slug":"three-cheers-for-kaye-adams-as-she-wins-yet-again-by-dave-chaplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/three-cheers-for-kaye-adams-as-she-wins-yet-again-by-dave-chaplin\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cheers for Kaye Adams as she wins (yet) again by Dave Chaplin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Dave Chaplin explains why, in the light of Kaye Adams\u2019 battle against the tax man, he is campaigning for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a nine-year battle and HMRC\u2019s fourth attempt to try to convince a tax tribunal that broadcaster Kaye Adams was a \u2018disguised employee\u2019, on 29 November 2023 Judge Beare\u2019s decision pointed to the same conclusion reached by three other hearings \u2013 that the tax authorities had wrongly accused Ms Adams of being a tax avoider. It didn\u2019t matter how hard HMRC tried to apply its \u2018Policy View\u2019 on tax status. The courts repeatedly told them they were wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HMRC suffered from myopia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers who have explored status law will know that it\u2019s a bizarre area of tax which, to the layman, appears simple \u2013 \u201csurely it should be easy to define a test for whether someone is employed or not?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alas it isn\u2019t, and HMRC spent nine years trying to make it so simple that the common law test they tried to get the Court of Appeal to sanction would have meant everyone was \u201cemployed for tax purposes\u201d. One ambitious argument HMRC ran at the Court of Appeal was even dismissed as \u201cmyopic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the full article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Three-cheers-for-Kaye-Adams-as-she-wins-by-Dave-Chaplin.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Three cheers for Kaye Adams as she wins by Dave Chaplin.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-86f08941-d0d5-4fe1-b1ae-daa8808a7d52\" href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Three-cheers-for-Kaye-Adams-as-she-wins-by-Dave-Chaplin.pdf\">Three cheers for Kaye Adams as she wins by Dave Chaplin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Three-cheers-for-Kaye-Adams-as-she-wins-by-Dave-Chaplin.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-86f08941-d0d5-4fe1-b1ae-daa8808a7d52\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chaplin explains why, in the light of Kaye Adams\u2019 battle against the tax man, he is campaigning for a Taxpayer Bill of Rights After a nine-year battle and HMRC\u2019s fourth attempt to try to convince a tax tribunal that broadcaster Kaye Adams was a \u2018disguised employee\u2019, on 29 November 2023 Judge Beare\u2019s decision pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-december-january-2024"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2167\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taxinvestigation.co\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}