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Simon Moore

Simon Moore is one of the UK’s most consistently published freelance journalists on freelancing,

self-employment and contractor issues, such as IR35, the Loan Charge and late payment.

Trained in News & Features writing by NCTJ-approved journalism tutors, Simon worked in the

newsrooms of local, consumer and national press titles, before setting up his own editorial services

company, Moore News Ltd.

The company’s clients include a FTSE-listed recruiter, a division of one of the ‘Big 4’ accountancy

firms and the UK’s largest small business forum. Simon’s articles have been linked to by The Daily

Telegraph and the biggest newspaper website in the world, MailOnline.

Chancellor looking increasingly isolated in his decision not to help limited company directors.

Two new updates to the furlough scheme are ‘easily overlooked, and obviously were by the government.’

Pandemic ‘survival’ mode snookers off-payroll comms from reaching most PSCs.

‘Reasons and channels’ prevent your internet data being trawled, even if your CJRS usage is deemed suspicious.

Or don’t and risk having tighter rules, potentially on masks, supermarkets and WfH.

Far from fertile conditions to hire people permanently played into contractors’ hands just before Christmas.

The type of contract you’re on shouldn’t affect your place in the vaccination queue, but it might - REC.

Neither the need to make up the covid-19 deficit nor the tendency to target contractors bodes well for eight weeks’ time.

A longer CJRS is tagged up as a Christmas gift to help firms through a tougher January.

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.