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17 Sep

'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 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

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.

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@williamhboney1

17 Sep

https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1438887015630753793

I’m not letting this go, the Chief Appeals Officer of the Social Welfare Appeals Office deliberately lied to the SW Committee about the use of test cases.

I made a complaint to SIPO that the CAO deliberately lied.

SIPO ruled that the CAO did give ‘erroneous information’ to

https://twitter.com/williamhboney1/status/1438887015630753793

@HHumphreysFG

the Committee. The Social Welfare Appeals Office DOES use unlawful test cases to determine employment status by group and by class.

In July this year, the current SW minister, @HHumphreysFG repeated this lie in a Dail reply to Paul Murphy.

The Ceann Comhairle has now

referred the Minister’s Dail reply to the Committee on Privileges and oversight.

There must be accountability for the Chief Appeals Officer’s lie. The lie costs the taxpayer 1 billion euro each and every year. It is fraud, deliberate fraud, covered up by the CAO and Munister

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@williamhboney1

30 Apr

@PaulMcauliffe

#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

https://twitter.com/BrianStanleySF/status/1387321479587635200

@PaulMcauliffe

@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

@PaulMcauliffe

@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

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martinmcmahon

@williamhboney1

3 Mar

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"

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, >

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@williamhboney1

25 Nov 20

I'm bored so I'm going to tell you a story.

Way back in the mists of time (late 70's), PAYE workers held some of the most militant strikes ever seen in Ireland.

They demand a more equitable taxation system for workers. Workers paid income tax through the Pay As >

You Earn (PAYE) scheme, tax and PRSI deducted directly from your wages.

The failure of Fianna Fáil to introduce increased taxation for prosperous farmers and wealthier members of society was the issue. Workers, PAYE employees, correctly felt that they were shouldering the

tax burden of running the country. One of the big issues was that the self-employed were getting away with murder on taxation and the figures showed that indeed was the case.

Workers were fighting to replace an unjust tax system and to ensure that the wealthy paid >

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@williamhboney1

23 Nov 20

Can't sleep, damn insomnia. Thoughts running so I'll share. Tomorrow marks 17 days since the DPC told me that my complaint about the PSC travel pass being used as a tool of mass surveillance, was valid.

It's 2 weeks since I emailed the DPC and said I didn't want it included in

with the current DPC case re the PSC as it had nothing to do with it. A travel pass is one of those functions which the Social Welfare is allowed use the PSC.

The 2 weeks is important because that's the time limit to act once the complaint is deemed valid, there's a precedent

somewhere.

Anywho, I'm mulling over the individual number of data protection/GDPR breaches involved. So, you have a travel pass and you get on public transport. The PSC travel pass is supplied by dept SW. It has your name, a biometric photo and on the magnetic strip is a

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