IRS Signals a Coming Crackdown on Gig Workers
IRS Signals a Coming Crackdown on Gig Workers
Beginning this tax year, gig working platforms have to report information about more workers to the IRS as the agency cracks down on tax scofflaws.
The ole saying... Oh Ben Franklin how you have aged so well
I know they’ve said they don’t have the capacity to take on the really big tax cheats (ie the same people that pay lobbyists and gift politicians with trips and gifts), but recovering one or two of their dodged taxes alone would probably cover every gig worker who’s ever underpaid taxes.
Of course, that would only make sense if you thought the IRS’ primary function was to fairly enforce taxation and mutual support of our shared govt—whereas the older I get, the more it seems to me that it serves as a social disciplining function and a lever to adjust social mobility. If your have enough money, you never have to worry about them.
War machine go brrr we got Palestinian babies to kill. TurboTqx gotta get their cut too.
Why are normal people trying to scrape out a living being punished and not the companies that are exploiting labor laws? Require Uber, DoorFash, etc. To hire the workers as employees with a proper W-2
The lobby is strong.
California literally had a ballot measure to force Uber, etc to hire as employees, and they spent so much money muddying the water that it failed.
Theres no punishment, if you’re paying your taxes. Think of this as requiring the same reporting from companies as they already do for w-2.
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Previously, gig platforms only had to report information to the IRS for workers who earned more than $20,000 and completed at least 200 transactions. The new thresholds are designed to make it harder for gig workers to avoid paying taxes on their income.
“Like their fellow Americans who earn income through traditional means, U.S. taxpayers who earn income from digital and other platforms that comprise the gig economy need to pay their fair share of taxes,” IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement. “The world is getting smaller for tax cheats, and we will work collaboratively with our partners to vigorously enforce the nation’s tax laws.”
Gig workers are getting so damn rich! Better cut our profit!
as long as they collect the taxes from the corps directly this would be fine. drop the bill on grubhub.
Ah I see, being poor is just not good enough so you had to be poor and hustle. But then even then it was not good enough so now we have this, I guess be poor, hustle AND make sure to report every dime to the tax man.
And the cost of this "crack down"? Doubt the Gig workers could even cover it, and just one billionaire getting full taxed would likely dwarf both.
It's been known by employers for a while. I worked for an event catering gig for a summer or two and talking to the bosses they were well aware that the IRS was going from one gig in the state to another. For instance the year before my boss's profession got hit, all of the places that hired golf caddies were audited all at once.