The BBC has nearly driven some of its telecasters to suicide and homelessness by imposing an oppressive tax system that’s left them with huge unpaid bills, according to reports.

Twenty-one employees of the public service broadcaster will testify before the Department of Culture, Media and Sports Tuesday that they were forced to set up Personal Service Companies — a tax system that’s used by contractors.

“I’m grateful to do a job I love,” one woman said in published letters that will be presented Tuesday, according to the Mirror. “I have always loved working for the BBC but the way they have behaved has reduced me to more than tears. It’s one of the factors that three days ago took me into my loft where I tried to hang myself.”

The woman said she was forced into setting up a PSC in 2011 and had to work on three-month contracts with “no sick pay, no holiday, no permanent contract” while a male employee received those benefits, according to the Guardian. 

“I have been paid too little due to the use of incorrect tax codes, been subject to clawback, received no information for months on end as to what I was going to live off,” she said.

Some workers claim they were strong-armed into setting up PSCs in order to get paid and said the system left them with soaring tax bills.

“It was made clear this would offer no job security whatsoever. I would say I was effectively bullied into a decision I did not want to make,” one presenter said. “I have now been asked for £56,000 pounds [$78,000] back tax, which I do not have.”

Another BBC employee said, “I now see the arrangement for what it was – a brazen attempt to minimize the BBC’s tax outlay while insulating itself from any future claim that it had avoided tax.”

British radio personality Charles Nove, who works for BBC Radio Oxford, claimed he “faces homelessness” because of the tax system.

“We cannot afford to be ‘double taxed’ on these earnings and we are left with an unholy mess to resolve,” he said.

Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons culture committee, said employees’ accounts were “highly disturbing.”

“By allegedly being coerced into these contracts, these individuals may have been denied employment rights and some face liability for huge tax bills,” he said. “This evidence indicates that the BBC is falling well below the standards we would expect in terms of how it treats its staff.”