-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- A much more serious omission is that "longstanding" dates from about 10 years ago, when NJ Senator Frank Lautenberg, who made his money running ADP, a computer consulting company that rents out its employees to businesses, got the law changed to force his competition to use employees rather than independent contractors, which was common. A number of my friends who were independent contractors had to go find consulting firms to be employed by, or go start their own shell firms and spend a lot of money on extra paperwork and business taxes. Many of those consulting firms, however, give their employees a lot of latitude on salary vs. benefits, though taxes aren't optional :-) At 02:20 PM 7/21/97 -0400, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Notice how the following article does not mention the fact that ICs sometimes neglect to send those quarterly tax payments in on time and this is why the Feds dislike them. It's not going to happen, but it would be fun if it did...
July 20, 1997 Item in Tax Bill Poses a Threat to Job Benefits By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
In Congress and in thousands of workplaces, the nation's business community is seeking to change longstanding rules and practices to turn many people classified as employees into independent contractors -- a move that could cause many Americans to lose health insurance and pension and unemployment insurance benefits.
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