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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by jerguismi on Monday March 15, 2010 @09:07AM (#1192820)
Wow, what a bureaucracy. In Finland the State has simple database (called "Ennakkoperintärekisteri"). If you register to that database as a contractor, you are held responsible for your own taxes/worker payments, and you can bill companies. Then companies can buy your services without worries. Really simple.
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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by madair on Monday March 15, 2010 @11:05AM (#1193096)
Nobody except the contractors wants this to be simple. The contractors would love it though, there would be less income lost to "preferred vendors" who provide the contractors with a stiff take on the paychecks, and they'd get to negotiate their own rates.
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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by yummyfajitas on Monday March 15, 2010 @11:07AM (#1193102)
People wanting to hire contractors don't want this to be simple?
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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by conover on Monday March 15, 2010 @12:26PM (#1193306)
The implication being that a lot of company hire people as contractors when they are really employees and a database like this would instantly eliminate all the underhandedness.

It's a favorite pastime of labor lawyers to beat companies over the head with the Fair Labor Standards Act for classifying people as independent contractors when they are really acting like employees. I'm sure the IRS enjoys it too.

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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by DanBlake on Monday March 15, 2010 @10:22AM (#1192975)
Well, its not simply about the US being unorganized but more about how it wants payroll tax.
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Re:20 Ways Your Independent Contractor Might Actually Be An ... by binarymax on Monday March 15, 2010 @10:30AM (#1193012)
True, but I wonder if the extra tax collected is cancelled out due to the overhead of the more complicated beaurocratic system? Maybe/Maybe not, but it still might not be worth it from a cost/value perspective.
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