The BBC has been blamed for not "completely unraveling" the "mess" over certain moderators' assessment issues.
The seat of the Public Accounts Committee, Meg Hillier MP, said a few specialists had been left in "frantic conditions".
Her remarks come as the spending guard dog, the National Audit Office, distributed a report into the BBC's game plans with its independent staff.
It found 800 BBC moderators could conceivably be approached to reimburse charge.
A few moderators' unpaid duty bills from HMRC keep running into a great many pounds.
Furthermore, HMRC is as of now researching around 100 BBC independent staff, the report said.
The BBC said it "perceives there are still issues to deliver and stay focused on settling them".
What is the contention about?
The BBC procures a great many consultants: in 2017-18 it contracted 60,000 including on-screen characters, performers and off-air laborers.
A portion of the specialists it contracts work as an "individual administration organization". This implies the individual is independently employed, instead of being utilized onto the BBC's finance. It is legitimate and is regular over the media business.
Before April 2017, any consultant working for the BBC as a PSC needed to illuminate HMRC of their business status for duty purposes -, for example, independently employed or utilized - guaranteeing they would pay the right measure of assessment.
Be that as it may, after April 2017, an adjustment in the law implied it was up to open bodies like the BBC to end up in charge of deciding the work status of PSCs it employed.
In 2017, the BBC began utilizing another HMRC apparatus to survey the business status of its consultants. This began giving various outcomes. Previously, most of on-air specialists were classed as independently employed yet with the new apparatus they were classed as utilized.
In March this year, a gathering of 170 moderators composed an open letter communicating disappointment with how the BBC dealt with the changes.
Questions were likewise raised during a parliamentary select advisory group in April this year about how the BBC utilized PSCs.
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What did the guard dog find?
As per the NAO, the BBC has found a way to support the influenced people.
It said the BBC recently declared its arrangement to set up an autonomous intercession process for moderators who were contracted through PSCs and who presently accept the BBC bears some duty regarding the HMRC's requests.
In any case, the report said issues identifying with the BBC's association with its specialists stay "uncertain and may have monetary ramifications for the organization".
It said that among April and September 2017, the BBC paid £8.3 million of duty (ahead of time) to HMRC to stay away from any punishment charges for not making good on regulatory expense that was possibly due. It has not completely recovered the cash yet.
What has Meg Hillier said?
Meg Hillier MP, who seats the Committee of Public Accounts - the gathering of MPs responsible for examining open spending - said increasingly should have been done to guarantee sureness for specialists working for the BBC .
"The Public Accounts Committee raised worries about the BBC's utilization of individual administration organizations six years back," she said.
"It is stressing that, six years on, the chaos of explaining the work status for duty reasons for individuals the BBC procures through PSCs has not been completely unraveled.
"With around 100 examinations concerning PSCs as yet exceptional, the BBC and HMRC must cooperate to guarantee assurance for consultants working for the BBC.
"Especially for those specialists who have been left in frantic conditions."
What have the BBC and HMRC said?
A HMRC representative stated: "Moderators are currently progressively covering the correct government obligation and generally do.
"Where moderators have not paid the appropriate measure of assessment it is correct that we authorize the law so individuals are dealt with similarly and decently."
The BBC has drawn closer HMRC to examine the likelihood of an elective way to deal with settling cases.
A BBC representative stated: "As the NAO perceives, individual administration organizations are a real method for contracting for administrations utilized by numerous individuals over the media business.
"Be that as it may, deciding if an individual is utilized for expense designs is intricate and in dealing with this we have constantly tried to adjust the interests of our workforce and the permit charge payer.
"We perceive there are still issues to deliver and stay focused on settling them. We are as of now in dialogs with our moderators and are effectively drawn in with HMRC to investigate the alternatives for goals."
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