On the heels of the U.S. Department of Labor’s announcement that it was going to share independent contractor misclassification information with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the IRS recently announced the implementation of the “Voluntary Classification Settlement Program” (“VCSP”). The VCSP is intended to encourage employers who have misclassified workers, for a relatively small payment to the IRS, to reclassify those workers as employees for federal employment tax purposes. In effect, this allows employers to avoid all but 10% of the past employment tax liability that the companies would have owed for prior years. The IRS will also not conduct employment tax audits of the companies for prior years with respect to the classification of the workers.
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