Self-employment

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>In 2022, 54 Social Welfare Appeals Office decisions were in favour of employers, compared with five in 2021 and three in 2023. In the same three-year period, 15 decisions were made in favour of the worker. Picture: iStock</p>

news

State made 54 rulings on employee status in favour of employers last year

New data shows that the number of State decisions in favour of employers regarding appeals of workers’ employment status rose by nearly 1,000% in 2022

<p> Niall Cody said a 1997 decision by Revenue, which deemed all couriers to be self-employed in the interests of “uniformity” and which still stands today, had been made in order “to ensure that motorcycle couriers were brought into the tax net”. Photo: Collins</p>

news

Revenue Commissioners 'has no responsibility' for bogus self-employment

<p>The Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Brian Stanley, heard views on how to deal with bogus self-employment. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins</p>

politics

Bogus self-employment could be 'solved overnight', PAC hears

news

Thousands of workers 'deliberately misclassified' as self-employed

comment-analysis

Michael Clifford: UK court rulings give hope to precarious workers – it's time we follow suit

news

Couriers treated as self-employed due to precedent set in mid-1990s, Pac hears

File Photo PEOPLE ARE BEING warned to be alert against a phishing scam involving fraudulent emails and texts

Revenue Commissioners unable to say how much bogus self-employment costs exchequer

"It’s like any non-compliant activity. It’s very difficult to put an estimate on it,” Niall Cody, the Revenue chairman, said

Sun, 22 Nov, 2020

Campaign fails to hail true worth of self-employed

You would think it would be obvious, whether a person is an employee or self-employed. So why should the employment minister be running a campaign to raise awareness about false self-employment in Ireland?

Mon, 14 May, 2018

Workers are not sole traders: Let’s put rights before revenue

The Government is to launch a public awareness campaign on bogus self-employment, amid concerns about the rise in employees deprived of entitlements by being forced to work as sole traders.

Tue, 08 May, 2018

Self-employment

State made 54 rulings on employee status in favour of employers last year

Revenue Commissioners 'has no responsibility' for bogus self-employment

Bogus self-employment could be 'solved overnight', PAC hears

Thousands of workers 'deliberately misclassified' as self-employed

Michael Clifford: UK court rulings give hope to precarious workers – it's time we follow suit

Couriers treated as self-employed due to precedent set in mid-1990s, Pac hears

Revenue Commissioners unable to say how much bogus self-employment costs exchequer

Campaign fails to hail true worth of self-employed

Workers are not sole traders: Let’s put rights before revenue

Latest

Mick Clifford

Self-employment

State made 54 rulings on employee status in favour of employers last year

Revenue Commissioners 'has no responsibility' for bogus self-employment

Bogus self-employment could be 'solved overnight', PAC hears

Thousands of workers 'deliberately misclassified' as self-employed

Michael Clifford: UK court rulings give hope to precarious workers – it's time we follow suit

Couriers treated as self-employed due to precedent set in mid-1990s, Pac hears

Revenue Commissioners unable to say how much bogus self-employment costs exchequer

Campaign fails to hail true worth of self-employed

Workers are not sole traders: Let’s put rights before revenue

Latest

Mick Clifford

Most Read