“…tax consequences are more favourable to an employee than to the self-employed: see Davies v Braithwaite [1931] 2 KB 628, Matthews v HMRC [2012] UKUT 299 (TCC); [2014] STC 297.…”
“…The following year, the Upper Tribunal (Mann J) gave judgment in Matthews v HMRC [2012] UKUT 229 (TCC); [2014] STC 297, in which the taxpayers contended that they were employees and HMRC argued that they were self-employed. If the taxpayers were right, they were not chargeable …”