Being a co-signer is one of
the weakest economic positions imaginable.
As long as the borderlines between different tax statuses can be fuzzy and open to interpretation, we are likely to continue to see confusion and inconsistency among taxpayers and their employers, and exploitation of workers in too
weak an economic position to resist entering into work arrangements that HMRC might be expected to challenge.»
Not exact matches
Apart from fragile capital
positions and
weak economic growth, European banks will have to deal with crucial elections in core member states: Germany, France, the Netherlands, and potentially in Italy.
Meanwhile there are significant, broader risks that can't be ignored, namely that
economic growth is
weak, and it will be vulnerable without the Fed's active backstop
position.
It is in a
weak, defensive
position because Brexit, in its current hard form, is undeliverable without much
economic and social upset.
Of itself, that doesn't expose you to the unequal yoke, but when you are in an
economic agreement that binding, if your partner takes the business in an ethical direction you find dubious, you will be in a
weak position to do something about this.