I hope the taxman wins. If you are a self employed contractor you have to demonstrate that to the taxman so a plumber for example can say that in a year he worked for dozens of people in a variety of places.

Gary Lineker has worked for the BBC for years doing the same job probably 9 months of the year. His boss is the BBC so he is a de facto employee and should be treated as such.

The BBC may employ Gary Lineker productions as opposed to the artist but as the lawyer pointed out if Lineker is unavailable they do not provide an alternate person where if you employ a plumbing firm they will send who ever is available.

There are aspects of his career which could be called self employed e.g. one off TV ads, paid appearances, public speaking etc. However his main job at the BBC is clearly that of an employee, if he wins the taxman needs to change the law.

This is not a Lineker rant far too many people in showbiz are doing the same. It's one thing to be an occasional presenter e.g. filling in for Gary but the hours he works should be PAYE.

One more point

So the do-gooder loonie leftie, is happy to withhold millions in tax, which could be going to good causes,who’d have thought it.
Met him and his ex-wife at Gatwick, she is South African and eas asking my advice about UK Residency, she was really nice and thankful. He was miserable, surly and obviously very anti- immigration….. t***

A hypocrite of a man.
Go green - except I drive a gas guzzler and travel 1st class.
Give generously - but I do not want to pay my way and so avoid tax.
I hate the Tories - but I am a capitalist and a champagne socialist who used private schools and so on.
He also is still unable to keep it in his trousers and is a serial cheater.
Nice chap eh!
Who is he to preach!

One of the companies I worked for had an engineer that they used for pretty much all of their international work, this went on for about 20 years, this guy was self employed so he was a subcontractor, at a certain point in time all this became a problem with HMRC because we were the only company that he actually did any work for / invoiced accordingly - I think eventually we found him some work for some of our end users so that he could invoice them & demonstrate that he had a customer base of more than one.

Does anybody remember who chaired Match Of the Day before Lineker ?

seems to be a heck of a tenured position ? he seems more unsackable than a Pope.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

Indeed Teddy, It's all bulls*** & bluster with this dropkick.

Pro USA & Israel