Re: Employement status is more complex than that
" It explicitly states that the two are not related or dependent on each other. So you can be taxed as an employee without having employee status."
that's easily fixed: if you don't get sick pay, holiday pay, etc., you are not an employee in status and therefore not in tax. If HMRC wants to tax you as if you're an employee, but you dont get holiday/sick etc pay, then HMRC can either (a) strip those rights from it's own employees as well, or (b) pay them to you, at your normal rates.
Or they change things, make the whole thing reasonable or even within a mile of fair, and simply say if you don't get employee benefits you are not an employee and won't be taxed as such.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
