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| Subject: Parasitical former BBC Look North presenter is ordered to pay £400,000 in upaid tax Thu Feb 15, 2018 3:58 pm | |
| A former BBC presenter has been ordered to pay Inland Revenue £419,151 in unpaid taxes after HMRC won a landmark battle expected to clamp down on freelancers.
Christa Ackroyd, 60, who presented 'Look North' until 2013, now has to cough up thousands in income tax and National Insurance after she set up a limited company where her wages were paid into.
It is the first of around 100 cases regarding TV presenters, who could follow Ackroyd in facing large bills for back tax after claiming to be self-employed.
In effect, Ackroyd was selling her talent via Christa Ackroyd Media (CAM) Ltd from 2001 until she was sacked in 2013, when HMRC started to question her tax affairs in an IR35 clampdown.
Ackroyd had been on a salary of £163,233 - making her the highest paid BBC regional presenter and earning more than the Prime Minister.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5396511/BBC-presenter-pay-420-000-HMRC-clampdown.html#ixzz57DFN5SFM
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