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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by lostboys67 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:29AM (#13550694)
oh they do miss out on a lot of tax that's why HMRC is so hot on disguised employment - though strangely "self employed" lawyers are not caught by this even if they are working on the same case for years
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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by beaconstudios on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:47AM (#13550823)
working on the same case for years does not disqualify a relationship from being a B2B one - service companies do this all the time. Having a service company with 1 employee does not suddenly make that relationship invalid.
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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by lostboys67 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @10:59AM (#13551420)
Tell that to 99.9% of IT contractors caught by ir35 and you will get a bitter laugh
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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by beaconstudios on Thursday February 02, 2017 @12:47PM (#13552619)
I am an IT contractor, I'm well aware of this. My point is that what HMRC is doing is going after legitimate business relationships completely in spite of the problem they're trying to solve.
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