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Usually self employed pay far more taxes, what’s different about these truck drivers? I assume they’re not cheating on their taxes.


Is that really the case? It’s not so in the UK


It is definitely the case in the US. They even call it the self-employment tax (https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...)


In the UK there have been some tax changes which affected truckers and other self employed contractors: IR35.




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