Self-employed people who work in another EU country for less than a year will be protected from having to pay double social security contributions…

Date: 06/04/2000

...after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. The judges upheld a case brought by a dozen British opera singers and a conductor, who challenged the Belgian authorities' decision to deduct social security contributions at source when the artists performed in Brussels, even though they paid national insurance contributions on their income in the UK.