Sauce for goose and gander

[webberg]

Presenters' stress over BBC 'tax pressure' - BBC News

So, if you are a "face" on the TV, you get a Parliamentary hearing, sympathy from MPs and a public body to pay some of your tax.

If you are an anonymous back room grunt in a bank in the same circumstances, the MP's don't want to know, HMRC are allowed to bully you into ill health and nobody is going to help you.

Bit of balance missing here I think?

[madame SasGuru]

Presenters' stress over BBC 'tax pressure' - BBC News

So, if you are a "face" on the TV, you get a Parliamentary hearing, sympathy from MPs and a public body to pay some of your tax.

If you are an anonymous back room grunt in a bank in the same circumstances, the MP's don't want to know, HMRC are allowed to bully you into ill health and nobody is going to help you.

Bit of balance missing here I think?

Which committee is holding the hearing?

This is about the behaviour of the BBC not the behaviour of HMRC..

[webberg]

Which committee is holding the hearing?

This is about the behaviour of the BBC not the behaviour of HMRC..

Department of Media Culture and Sport I think.

Correct, it's about the way the BBC "forced" talent into PSCs and contracting.

I see little difference to people told by Mega Bank that only as a contractor will they be accepted for engagement.

The blame could equally be laid at the feet of:

individuals
end clients
promoters
advisers

And let's not forget HMRC either.

If there is noise and action, then conflating the issues to get heard is perfectly acceptable.

[SueEllen]

Presenters' stress over BBC 'tax pressure' - BBC News

So, if you are a "face" on the TV, you get a Parliamentary hearing, sympathy from MPs and a public body to pay some of your tax.

If you are an anonymous back room grunt in a bank in the same circumstances, the MP's don't want to know, HMRC are allowed to bully you into ill health and nobody is going to help you.

Bit of balance missing here I think?

The BBC is a public sector organisation. If a public sector organisation is being seen to openly break the rules then another part of the public sector will police them, as the public sector are suppose to have a higher standard than and set it for the rest of society.

Oh and the people who have been handed bills by HMRC will have to prove that the BBC forced them to work under a limited company - I suspect some of them can't so won't get any part of their tax bill paid by the BBC.

[piebaps]

Department of Media Culture and Sport I think.

Correct, it's about the way the BBC "forced" talent into PSCs and contracting.

I see little difference to people told by Mega Bank that only as a contractor will they be accepted for engagement.

The blame could equally be laid at the feet of:

individuals
end clients
promoters
advisers

And let's not forget HMRC either.

If there is noise and action, then conflating the issues to get heard is perfectly acceptable.

The piece I read included comments about gender pay inequality which is all the rage at the moment. Along the lines of "I was forced into a PSC on worse terms than my male counterparts". This I think is the angle for the story rather than contracting per se.