Eamonn Holmes is taking HMRC to courtroom over a £250,000 tax invoice.
The This Morning presenter, 60, was hit with the invoice again in February after dropping a case in opposition to the taxman over how he’s paid.
On the time he claimed he was a freelancer, and obtained funds from ITV by way of his restricted firm, known as Purple, White and Inexperienced, which reduces his tax invoice.
However the taxman argues that TV presenters are workers and so ought to pay earnings tax and nationwide insurance coverage.
This implies they need to pay as much as 45 per cent tax and never 18 per cent company tax.
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Eamonn has now filed to take HM Income and Customs to courtroom over the invoice, based on The Solar.
He has mentioned he was a take a look at case and that others resembling Ant and Dec could also be focused if he misplaced
The TV host mentioned: “‘I used to be in a courtroom in central London for per week in June.
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“I have been freelance for 28 years and that is been okay. Now they’ve mentioned it is not okay.
“They’ve reinvented the principles prior to now couple of years.
“There may be no person extra freelance than me, however they’re attempting to show our jobs are common and assured.
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“They may go at any second.”
A spokesperson for Eamonn mentioned he “has at all times thought-about himself a self-employed freelancer and has by no means knowingly averted paying taxes”.
Mirror On-line has contacted Eamonn’s reps for remark.
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Eamonn is the newest star to be hit by HMRC’s crackdown on the usage of private service corporations.
Ex-regional TV presenter Christa Ackroyd was hit with an enormous tax invoice in 2018.
Lorraine Kelly escaped a £1.2million tax invoice after a decide dominated she was not employed by ITV and appeared on her ITV present as a “persona of herself”.
