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unfortunately i was not aware that she must have been doing this work freelance. it was never discussed. the situation is that she did the tax accounts for my aunt when she was alive and receiving payments for an american pension (this was after her husband had died). she did this as an employee of a company of tax accountants for which the company were paid. when my aunt died this lady who worked for the firm of accountants managed all the probate of her will in the UK and was also supposed to be managing all the paperwork for the stuff in the USA. When I found out about all of this I asked her what the bill was and she said she had been doing it as a favour. I suppose I should have wondered why the company were allowing her to do work without them getting paid but supposed it was because my aunt and her husband had put lots of work their way over the years. I only ever had contact with this one individual and I had no idea that the company were probably unaware of this. I never had any contract with her for freelance worki have only just found out that i am not in their system at all . my understanding was that she was dealing with this, as an employee of the company, but was not charging. Why, in any case, would anyone want to do work freelance and not charge for it. surely she would have been more likely to charge if this was the case. I am actually now becoming suspicious. why was she not charging, was it to keep me out of their system? why was i not in their system, as far as i was concerned this company were responsible for the work. maybe because she wanted to keep the file to herself without anyone else having access to it? i have just had an email from the company and they are as confused about all this as i am. they have said they will see if they can locate the file.