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Did you read the article? They are forced to pay retroactively. It's like if the government raised income tax rates and tried to collect the difference for the

• d_t_w 10y ago
  IT Contractors in the UK right now are facing demands to pay retroactively for tax stretching back over a decade in some cases that they purposefully avoided at the time using a scheme called EBT (or, being paid in loans by a trust because loans aren't taxed). They had advice at the time that these schemes were legit (though every adviser would deliver that with a wink), any adult human must have known there was a large risk HMRC would disagree eventually (just as Apple knew they were running a risk), and now they face demands to pay the tax they failed to pay in the first place. Are they the victims? Certainly they will tell you so. Sympathy I have for them? Nil.