Rjan:
To be genuinely self-employed, and stating the point very generally, you have to be an owner (of business capital), an employer, or have recognisable authority over your customers.If you are/have none of these to any significant degree, the self-employment is basically not genuine.
It is otherwise perfectly possible to be an employee who fills up the vehicle and then claims on expenses, and it is perfectly possible to be a businessman with only one client.
But owning a pair of gloves and toe-capped boots does not make you an owner, occasionally bunging some work to a “self-employed” friend does not make you an employer, and one driver in a marketplace of thousands does not stand as the authority figure against a large corporation or the peripheral businesses which supply it.
yet thousands stil do it knowing this information or vaguely knowing it but carry on anyway… what’s the worst that could happen? hmrc saying you need to stop it or will they get a fine or made to repay something of some sort?
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