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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.

Signs the government is potentially open to acting against brollies indicates 'all is not lost.'

Almost ten well-established contractor sector businesses say they’d sign their names to the Poyser-Seeley Harris plan.

Except for technical-types typically sole trading, contractors are glum about their business, more so than about the economy -- IPSE.

Taxman ‘buckles down’ on a suspected CJRS rip-off and in the same loop, an alleged multi-million-pound scam.

Agents back an 11th hour extension, but say virtual checks are so much better they should be here to stay.

An audit, of sorts, to work out how 48,000 mini umbrellas have sprung up so quickly begins.

The taxman is trying to blow the whistle on the Match of the Day presenter, but experts say he’s got an open goal -- his brand.

Updates on .gov in wake of IR35 reform indicate the Revenue realises the brolly situation.

Courier firm gets cut off from appealing, but many are challenging the government not to sit idle.

The digital system works, government told, so reverting to physical checks with covid still lingering is ‘nonsensical.’

Amid accounts of homelessness, death and life-changing pursuits, contractors can now tell campaigning MPs what they could cope with.

Chatting is recommended to help keep the weight of formal disagreements to a mere ‘deluge.’

Taxman takes on board two errors he made, but is warned: ‘I shall keep nit-picking.’

Firing at ‘twisters’ and ‘stone-throwers,’ a gun-toting CEO says ‘bad practice’ is in his sights too.

ContractorUK reveals the company names that made even the censors blush.

Loudest call for freelance techies since July 2018 indicates the covid bounce back has begun.

A ‘comprehensive’ report on ‘cleaning up the contractor supply chain’ is welcomed.

Agencies have had to ‘pick their battles’ to succeed in preparing end-users for Tuesday’s ‘big difference’ – SThree.

Ominous warning implies that 25 errors in a single Revenue webinar could be just the tip of the iceberg.

The issue of underhand, years-old pocketing of contractor cash by some brollies is reignited -- on the very cusp of IR35 reform.