Small Employers Face Compliance Crackdown

One giant target for federal enforcers is worker misclassification. Basically, that’s when you pay somebody as an independent contractor, thus avoiding the need to withhold payroll taxes, rather than as an employee. The new federal budget hands the U.S. Department of Labor an extra $25 million to pursue misclassification miscreants in a joint effort with the Treasury Department.

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