When you pay tax for something, you should get the benefit as well. But this doesn't apply to contractors, who can be asked to pay taxes like employees but who get none of the benefits employees do.

Contractors have no job security, no sick pay, no holiday pay, and they have to pay for their own equipment. Still we are asked under certain circumstances to pay tax like employees who have all these benefits.

The Government was supposed to provide employee rights legislation as a complement to IR35. But somehow, the Government never got around to it. And if we want to obtain those rights, we have to bear all the expense and difficulty of going to the Employment Appeals Tribunal.

Should we pay tax like employees when we get none of their privileges? Is it fair? What do you think?

Published: Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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