A very disabled business

owner lady gets a big bill for

tax she doesn't owe.

Mary, the disabled lady,

had to have carers available

24/7, just to survive.

Because they were all self

employed, Mary did not run

a payroll for PAYE. 

Unfortunately HMRC said

they were all employees, so

Mary owed PAYE. 

HMRC had brought in a

rule that any carer should be

taxed as an employee. 

In due course HMRC sent

Mary a large tax demand for

backdated PAYE.

One of the larger local

accountancy firms then filed

an appeal for her.

They put very little effort

into this and charged several

thousand pounds.

They lost the appeal for

Mary, and so Mary was now

even worse off.

Her tax bill was now more

than ever, so HMRC wanted

to seize her house.

We offered to help Mary

on a pro bono basis to help

delay proceedings.

We found a tax loophole

that the large accountancy

firm had missed.

So we filed a new appeal

for Mary, claiming that Mary

did not owe anything.

Mary had had problems

with a violent carer that she

was forced to dismiss.

Mary had to be able to

easily dismiss any carer, if

there were problems.

So therefore Mary had 

to be able to employ a self

employed carer.

However, HMRC were

now trying to take this right

away from Mary. 

This meant HMRC were

in breach of the Equality Act,

as we later proved.

The judge agreed with me,

so this effectively wiped out

the bill for PAYE.

We've also won tax cases

using the Human Rights Act

in the same way.