The Low Incomes Tax
Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and
Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers
regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.
Absent serious
reforms in Albany
regarding such items as skyrocketing Medicaid costs and public employee
pensions, we will have much more difficult choices to make next year.