Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #BogusSelfEmployment
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Tomorrow morning, the Dept. of Social Protection is in the Public Accounts Committee. Before I bring you up to speed on what promises to be an interesting session, I'd like to say a few things. I've been banging on doors for 21 years to expose the corruption that is
#bogusselfemployment. I do this because in 2000, I sat in an Appeal in the Social Welfare Appeals Office. That Appeal was the most corrupt thing I have ever seen. It wasn't subtly corrupt, it was in my face corrupt. It was 'what ya gonna do about it' power drunk corruptness.
I vowed that day that I would not let the Department of Social Welfare and the Revenue Commissioners get away with what they were doing. For 17 years, I did it on my own. Doors remained firmly closed. I did blog about it, tweet it about it, help people who were facing the same,
'So Where Has Your Pension Gone?' for Dummies.
The Revenue Commissioners, The Department of Social Welfare and the Social Welfare Appeals Office conspired with Employer Representatives to label employees as self-employed in order for individual businesses, entire sectors and
The Revenue Commissioners, The Department of Social Welfare and the Social Welfare Appeals Office conspired with Employer Representatives to label employees as self-employed in order for individual businesses, entire sectors and
the State itself, to evade employers PRSI.
The method used to achieve this tax evasion, is #bogusselfemployment. The Revenue Commissioners and the SWAO and the SW Department label groups and classes of workers as 'self-employed' using unlawful 'Test Cases'.
The loss in PRSI
The method used to achieve this tax evasion, is #bogusselfemployment. The Revenue Commissioners and the SWAO and the SW Department label groups and classes of workers as 'self-employed' using unlawful 'Test Cases'.
The loss in PRSI
and Taxes is estimated to be in excess of 1 billion euro each and every year.
From 1995 until January 2019, the Department of SW and the SWAO openly admitted, in writing, to using test cases and the approach of test cases to label groups and classes of workers as Self Employed.
From 1995 until January 2019, the Department of SW and the SWAO openly admitted, in writing, to using test cases and the approach of test cases to label groups and classes of workers as Self Employed.
#RTE in the Public Accounts Committee 27th April 2021.
Issues regarding #BogusSelfEmployment Analysis -
The first pertinent question on @bogusselfemployment was from @PaulMcauliffe. Paul asked about the Eversheds Sutherland report which had found 157 'contractors' out of 433
Issues regarding #BogusSelfEmployment Analysis -
The first pertinent question on @bogusselfemployment was from @PaulMcauliffe. Paul asked about the Eversheds Sutherland report which had found 157 'contractors' out of 433
@PaulMcauliffe were misclassified as 'Self-employed'. That's a very high rate of misclassification, slightly over 36%.
Paul specifically asked if @RTE had robustly responded and if @rte was correctly complying with Revenue guidelines.
@RTE's HR director confirmed the results of the Eversheds
Paul specifically asked if @RTE had robustly responded and if @rte was correctly complying with Revenue guidelines.
@RTE's HR director confirmed the results of the Eversheds
@PaulMcauliffe @rte Sutherland report and stated that reviews and meetings with managers had taken place to ensure compliance 'Going Forward'
But that doesn't exactly answer the question Paul asked, the true factual position is that @RTE was NOT compliant with regulations and not compliant spanning
But that doesn't exactly answer the question Paul asked, the true factual position is that @RTE was NOT compliant with regulations and not compliant spanning
Revenue finally replied in writing to the questions asked by the Public Accounts Committee about #bogusselfemployment. The reply is dated February 2021 and I will be sharing it on this thread later tonight. It confirms every single word of this thread to date and drops SW in it.
The first question from the PAC was -
"A test case regarding bogus self employment amongst couriers was discussed. Please provide further details in relation to this case including detailing any associated costs"
"A test case regarding bogus self employment amongst couriers was discussed. Please provide further details in relation to this case including detailing any associated costs"
Revenue replied with -
"There is no one specific “test” case.
However, couriers were regarded as self employed for PRSI purposes as a result of a Social Welfare
Appeals OfficerOfficer’s decision. In the interest of uniformity Revenue decided, >
"There is no one specific “test” case.
However, couriers were regarded as self employed for PRSI purposes as a result of a Social Welfare
Appeals OfficerOfficer’s decision. In the interest of uniformity Revenue decided, >
It's more than 2 years since myself and Tony first started the @EchoChambersPod. We hadn't a clue what we were getting ourselves into, we just knew that there were great people out there who never got a look-in on traditional media.
Our first pod was just me and Tony shouting at
Our first pod was just me and Tony shouting at
an ipod. Thanks to crowdfunding we upped our game, got decent mics and other bits and pieces we needed to improve our quality.
As we improved, we grew into the #tortoiseshack, with other great podcasts from Ruth, Rachel and Rory.
Podcasting has helped me so much, due to my
As we improved, we grew into the #tortoiseshack, with other great podcasts from Ruth, Rachel and Rory.
Podcasting has helped me so much, due to my
damnable health I'd become a recluse of sorts, but getting out a few times a week and meeting all kinds of interesting people rebuilt my confidence. These days I'm still wary of crowds but nowhere near as bad as I was.
Tony and Rory slag me quite a bit about my tunnel vision on
Tony and Rory slag me quite a bit about my tunnel vision on
For 20 years I've been fighting to expose the scale and cost of #BogusSelfEmployment. For 20 years I've been battling the absolute corruption of civil servants and Ministers which robs citizens of over one billion euro every goddamned year.
2 years ago, I sat with the current
2 years ago, I sat with the current
Minister for Social Welfare and explained to her in detail, not just the unlawful actions of the Social Welfare Appeals Office in creating and perpetuating this fraud, but also the prima facie criminality of individual social welfare employees in covering it up. The Minister has
done sweet fuck all since then except allow it all to continue. Indeed, she has gone out of her way to deny that there is large scale bogus self employment. I have witnessed the unlawfulness and the criminality first hand. I have dragged a Social Welfare Inspector into the
The most astonishing email you will ever read about how the State is unlawfully complicit in #bogusselfemployment
Serious questions, very serious questions, to be answered.
@IrishTimes @thejournal_ie @morningireland @TodaySOR @PatKennyNT
Serious questions, very serious questions, to be answered.
@IrishTimes @thejournal_ie @morningireland @TodaySOR @PatKennyNT
On the 17th December last, I emailed the Social Welfare Appeal's Office and requested:
"access to any and all precedential decisions of the SWAO regarding insurability of employment. I cite Opesyitan & ors -v- Refugee Appeals Tribunal & ors [2006] IESC 53
"access to any and all precedential decisions of the SWAO regarding insurability of employment. I cite Opesyitan & ors -v- Refugee Appeals Tribunal & ors [2006] IESC 53
(26 July 2006) as precedent for accessing this information"
On the 20th December last, you replied:
"Each appeal dealt with the Social Welfare Appeals Office is looked at on a case by case basis and determined on its own particular facts. In cases of appeals relating to >
On the 20th December last, you replied:
"Each appeal dealt with the Social Welfare Appeals Office is looked at on a case by case basis and determined on its own particular facts. In cases of appeals relating to >
