‘Delighted’ Kaye wins battle with taxman

LOOSE Women star

Kaye Adams has claimed victory in a battle with the taxman.

Kaye, 58, had been embroiled in a longrunning dispute with HMRC over her employment status.

Kaye, who presents her own show on BBC Radio Scotland, had won an earlier fight insisting she was a freelance worker and a tribunal had ruled in her favour in 2019.

Tax officials had claimed she was an employee and owed thousands in taxes.

However HMRC appealed the ruling insisting she should pay more than £81,000 in tax and £44,000 in National Insurance from work she did at the BBC.

She also makes regular appearances on the ITV lunchtime chat show Loose Women and writes columns for various publications.

An Upper Tier Tribunal hearing has now upheld the original ruling. The judges accepted she worked for the BBC through her company Atholl House Productions Ltd. She also showed evidence that she was paid for appearances on Loose Women on a “show for show” basis.

In a statement, Kaye said: “I am delighted. . . I hope we can now consider this matter closed.”