skippy41 wrote:
eusasmiles.zip Well guys here is a major shock for all you owners,did you know that by law you must pay any driver working for you the minumum wage, no matter how much they bring in,You can give them more not less Thats if the car does not belong to the driver or any of the equipment and is only named on the insurance doc,
And you as the owner is responcible for the drivers tax and national insurance,
You cannot claim the driver is self employed when going by the above, if the driver even agrees to a split bag he is still an employee and again you are responceble for his tax and ni
You can all check this out by calling the inland revenue who will gladly tell you the same thing as above or even the DTI
Aparently the taxman has writen to all councils in the uk asking for a full list of operators and drivers and will be getting in touch with us all very shortly. the only people not afected are the operator drivers
Interesting stuff Skippy, I've always thougth that the self-employed status of jockies was decidedly dodgy in a lot of cases, and that the IR had turned a blind eye to the issue re the minimum wage, which the IR enforces.
If you are correct it will turn the trade upside down in many areas, and will make major inroads into the black economy, but I'm not holding my breath, given the amount of drivers breaking the law by working 'on the side''.
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