Originally posted by man
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During that time (4 years) I had a few people at QDOS on my case but they seemed to change every few months and I eventually had Seb Maley representing me. It came to the point that HMRC claimed I owed them £52k so I wanted to go to the commissioners for appeal. QDOS said my cover didn't include this, they would still represent me but I would need to pay the £7k cost myself.
I was under the impression that any win at the commissioners would be good news for contractors and that QDOS would get more people buying TLC35 because of the publicity but they refused to budge.
I then contacted the PCG legal department (I should have done this first!!) and once they were involved it didn't take long for them to shoot HMRC's case down. No need for the commissioners as HMRC dropped the case and didn't even pursue the expenses and other things they said I had misclaimed during the investigation.
Needless to say I didn't take up renewal of TLC35 and am happy to pay into the IPSE pot to help others, at least until next April when the game changes again.
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