Observers say having multiple clients works in favour of techie contractors Lindsay Clark Mon 22 Feb 2021 // 13:46 UTC Share Copy The UK's tax collector has lost its appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams in a £124,000 IR35 case which, according to tax experts, could have implications for IT contractors. In April 2019, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) lost its IR35 case to Adams, formerly a panellist on ITV's Loose Women, who was appealing against a challenge to her self-employed status while presenting BBC Radio Scotland's The Kaye Adams Programme during the 2015/16 and 2016/17 tax years. Although HMRC took the view she was a BBC employee, the First-Tier Tribunal tax chamber had ruled Adams' plentiful work outside the public broadcaster showed she was working as an independent contractor.