Simon Moore

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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.

Yet again a certain taxman can’t catch a contractor, even though this time HMRC was the client.

How small changes to how you handle clients could pay-off big on your next due date.

1st August, 2018 | Money

Both private firms and public processes accused of pushing a 'Merry-Go-Round culture.'

At-a-glance: how to build quality and effectiveness into the ‘contracting out’ model.

The views of empire-builders among contractors? Possibly. Their targets? Not so much, finds IPSE.

Firms won’t be fined for first 12 months and will be allowed to ‘cut and paste’ – HMRC.

A tell-all survey on Value Added Tax even has room for Brexit, MTD and IR35.

Through the HMRC Looking-Glass is an odd world where only ‘outside’ decisions are penalised.

HMRC overzealousness and taxpayer assertiveness are behind a 36% jump in JRs.

Battle-weary PSCs, send your evidence of blanketing to help keep the heat on HMRC.

Almost nine in 10 contractors get paid on time in the Capital of the North.

A seemingly anodyne PDF on the 2019 Loan Charge is met with rebuffs, questions and letters.

The commercial threat posed to their PSC is behind contractors refusing AMS’s terms.

Contractor sector warns the OTS that its PAYE plan has 'unintended consequences.'

Contractors in and around a few Midlands cities tend to get paid later than anywhere else.

The clock is ticking for taxpayers brought into the split-bill system due to the 'dividend drop.'

REC slams ‘lack of clarity’ for the likes of contractors (and end-users) from 2021.

Ex-chancellor's ‘ticking time bomb’ triggers a near doubling in ‘Ltd’ landlords.

What HMRC's latest minutes say, and what contractors will likely take from them.

18th July, 2018 | IR35 Further Reading

What was once ‘appropriate’ is now ‘correct’ -- just don’t call it ‘blanketing,’ IR35 Forum told.