GMB Union has welcomed an All Party Parliamentary Group
report exposing how gig economy employers currently avoid paying
their fair share of tax.
The APPG demands the government rigorously
enforces the law to prevent bogus self-employment, takes
international action to tax gig economy earnings in the UK and
demands HMRC imposes the law across all companies regardless of
how big they are. [1]
GMB is at the forefront of a long running
battle against bogus self employment in the so called gig
economy.
GMB has won workers' rights cases against
against Uber, [2] Addison Lee [3] and - most recently
- Hermes [4].
GMB has also announced legal action against
three Amazon delivery companies over workers status on the charge
of bogus self employment. [5]
Tim Roache, GMB General Secretary,
said:
“This report shows that not only is insecure
work bad for workers, it’s daylight robbery of our tax system -
companies like Uber are responsible for hundreds of millions of
lost taxes that could be spent on hospitals, schools, roads, our
care system, local government.
“GMB has been taking the fight to exploitative
gig economy employers in the workplace and in the courts, and
we’re winning.
“Questions have to be asked about why HMRC is
not pursuing missing taxes with the same vigour, while the rest
of us are told austerity has to continue.”
ENDS
Notes To Editors
[1] For more information on the report, please
contact the Office of MP on 020 7219 6666 or
emailmargaret.hodge.mp@parliament.uk.
[2] http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/GMB-wins-uber-case
[3] http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/addison-lee-victory
[4] http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/gmb-hermes-win
[5] http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/amazon-firms-legal-action
