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Simon Moore

Simon writes impartial news and engaging features for the contractor industry, covering, IR35, the loan charge and general tax and legislation. He also edits and commissions viewpoint pieces and ‘how to’ guides from the industry’s leading experts.

He trained under NCTJ-approved journalism tutors before working in the newsrooms of leading consumer, local and national media titles.

He is the managing director of Moore News Ltd, whose clients include trade publications, digital start-ups and FTSE-listed recruiters.

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Alert over history repeating itself, partly as you ‘sold your soul to the devil’ by forming a limited company.

A ‘good but could do so much better’ assessment of HMRC belies a lot of still ‘gross’ goings-on.

Taxman will have a task accusing PSCs of gaming the system to get desirable outcomes, experts suggest.

Taxman’s tool to decide contractor IR35 status is indecisive almost a fifth of the time.

Questions about independence will likely be fired but, under wraps at HMRC, they may have been answered already.

Jesse Norman admits it’s an episode he’s never heard of before, and has no appetite to repeat.

November took the momentum out from the temp tech market’s recovery, but billings are still up.

An official forecast is downgraded to an ‘estimate.’ And then downgraded from that to ‘finger in the air guesswork.’

Don’t be like Duncan, says the taxman, in a familiar but now off-payroll-charged message.

A welcome approach, or ‘particularly inappropriate?’ Or is it worse -- enough to ‘push PSCs over the edge?’

MPs with a track record of holding HMRC to account get to quiz Rishi Sunak.

An unapologetic Rishi Sunak fails to help contractor companies that indirectly lost his Treasury an ‘eye-watering’ sum of revenue.

Claiming to be ‘delivering on the priorities of the British people,’ Rishi Sunak says the economic emergency has only just begun.

Even if it’s difficult, or DISS isn’t ready, let PSCs know that income support from the pandemic is your aim, Burnham tells Sunak.

A plan to return to the tiered approach includes the strong suggestion that ‘WfH’ lost its novelty in November.

Ten parts of the population being overlooked surges the membership of a new parliamentary group fighting for ‘Ltd directors.'

Watch fanatic becomes the face of BBL fraud, just as time runs out for a director and his secretary.

Even just half our normal fee will do, say ‘high and dry’ umbrellas, urging Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson for urgent cover.

Taxman to publish names, values and numbers of CJRS claimants from December.

It’s right of the Revenue to tell contractors how to spot a MUC, says Professional Passport.