DESPERATE - big self employed tax mess

PositiveSteps_2

Hello everyone,

I've joined as I'm desperate to solve a serious situation.

Due to various factors including depression, it has come to light that my mum has been self-employed for 7 years and has not declared this to HMRC. She has not kept any records of her expenses in this time.

She is now so desperate over this situation that she has planned and nearly taken her own life as she cannot see a way out of this.

As you can imagine I need to do all I can to sort this out as it is hanging over her like a dark cloud.

Where do I start and what do I say to HMRC? She is not earning a lot of money and is in her late 50s - from what I can see gross income is around 20k. She has been working for the same company in all this time.

I'm working on softly-softly approach just now as she is extremely vulnerable and under intensive mental health support so I'm not able to ask lots of probing details.

I'm desperate to set this right. How do I do that?

Any advice gratefully received. She lives in Scotland so I have been looking on citizen's advice website for advice in Scotland.

Aytoun27

If she's worked for the same company for seven years, are you sure that she's self-employed? Have they ever given her payslips, paid holidays etc? Does she have a contract with them? Would she count as an employee under employment law?
All worth checking out before you go any further with this. Good luck

Bogalot

You've been given some helpful links on your other thread, also her mental health support team should be able to put her in contact with someone.

I would run everything past her support team before saying anything to her, even the mention of it may trigger her. I hope she is on the road to recovery soon.