http://www.pprune.org/flying-instruc...mrc-again.html#
As can be seen on this thread the tax man is taking a challenge to court about the employment status of flight instructor. In a dispute with Sherburn Aero Club and an FI.
It has been a practise for years that some people try and avoid paying employers national insurance. To this end some schools forced FI's to work self employed and to be fair some FI's wanted this arrangement as well.
You might think why does this effect me?
Apart from those clubs who will go out of buisness taking with them any money on account. Some clubs are set up on a charity basis where each member is liable for a share of it debt's.
I will let ppruners who have more knowledge of law to comment on this.
But watch out if they win and they have a witch hunt around flying schools I can think of a fair few there are going to be tears before bedtime.