It’s your choice

It is entirely up to you whether you choose to register with HM Revenue & Customs. It’s also entirely up to you whether you decide to buy a TV licence; drive a car without insurance; or paddle a canoe into the North Sea, then allow your family to claim on your life insurance, spend five years in Panama, and finally turn up in a London police station claiming to suffer from amnesia. But your decisions may have serious consequences.

Undoubtedly a large number of escorts don’t pay tax. But if you’re in business to achieve financial independence and security for yourself and your family does it really make any sense to put that at risk by ignoring the taxman?