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What's to crack down on exactly? The government still gets all its taxes. It just gets all of it from the employee (sorry, "contractor") rather than getting hal

• duxup 8y ago
  In this case the employee is getting paid potentially paid "less" so wouldn't that men less taxes on that end? I'm not sure that tax payment by say a random start up or given to en employee would necessarily be 1:1. Netflix made big profits, but paid little tax, if they had paid it as salary (obviously not going to happen) I bet there would be more tax revenue. And that's just assuming the objections are about tax revenue... they're not.
• EpicEng 8y ago
  "Crack down" doesn't necessarily mean "they're doing something illegal _today_." They could certainly go after the contractor laws and change them. It's not all taxes; many protections employees get are skirted via these gig job companies due to everyone being a contractor.
• ilaksh 8y ago
  They don't get paid taxes if the self-employed person doesn't have money left over at tax season. Most people are getting by month-to-month. Not because they are bad planners, but because there is not any extra money. The government will crack down when it realizes poor self-employed people cannot or will not pay taxes and that putting them in jail will just cost more money.