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Wow, what a bureaucracy. In Finland the State has simple database (called "Ennakkoperintärekisteri"). If you register to that database as a contractor, you are
by jerguismi 17y ago
Wow, what a bureaucracy. In Finland the State has simple database (called "Ennakkoperintärekisteri"). If you register to that database as a contractor, you are held responsible for your own taxes/worker payments, and you can bill companies. Then companies can buy your services without worries. Really simple.
- DanBlake 17y agoWell, its not simply about the US being unorganized but more about how it wants payroll tax.
- binarymax 17y agoTrue, but I wonder if the extra tax collected is cancelled out due to the overhead of the more complicated beaurocratic system? Maybe/Maybe not, but it still might not be worth it from a cost/value perspective.
- madair 17y agoNobody except the contractors wants this to be simple. The contractors would love it though, there would be less income lost to "preferred vendors" who provide the contractors with a stiff take on the paychecks, and they'd get to negotiate their own rates.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoPeople wanting to hire contractors don't want this to be simple?
- conover 17y agoThe implication being that a lot of company hire people as contractors when they are really employees and a database like this would instantly eliminate all the underhandedness. It's a favorite pastime of labor lawyers to beat companies over the head with the Fair Labor Standards Act for classifying people as independent contractors when they are really acting like employees. I'm sure the IRS enjoys it too.