More than 60 percent of self-employed workers (whose income tax is not withheld) either under-report income or over-report deductions.
Finnish Liberal MEP Riika Manner drew attention to the fact that there were far fewer female self-employed workers compared to men.
In Chile, where self-employed workers do not have to pay into a personal retirement account, very few choose to do so regularly.
The new law was drawn up by the European Commission in October 2008 and seeks to improve the rights of spouses of self-employed workers.
It would extend rights to civil partners and "life partners", and would also ensure that self-employed workers have the same maternity rights as employees.
Its share of self-employed workers is almost twice as big as America's, and some 69% of its private-sector employees work in firms with fewer than 100 people.
MEPs debated the new directive which primarily focuses on the rules applying to self-employed workers and to people working in the airline sector, on 17 April 2012.
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Self-employed workers and small businesses will be pleased to learn that they will be able to enjoy the benefits of Ultimate Speed Internet 120, including a 250 GB download and 100 GB upload limit, as of fall 2010.
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There are over two million sellers on eBay, and there are also over twenty-one million self-employed workers, many of whom rely on selling goods on the internet and shipping them through the Postal Service for their livelihood.
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It is increasingly common for families, self-employed workers and small businesses to share a single Internet connection among a number of people and among many simultaneous uses and applications: uploads and downloads, video and photo sharing, computers and game consoles.
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Most MEPs to speak in the debate said they would vote in favour of the law, however British Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis raised concerns over what the impact may be on self-employed workers who were helped out by family members.
The government estimates that the percentage of non-payers among self-employed and part-time workers is over 40 percent.
Self-employed or independent workers are a bright spot in the otherwise grim workplace result.
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It covered workers in commerce and industry only (leaving out the self-employed, farmers, service workers and government employees), plus their spouses and dependents.
Or the self-employed may, like workers, face taxes on all or part of those premiums.
Harris Interactive conducted the survey online for CareerBuilder, polling 4, 216 full-time workers who were not self-employed.
Struggling to find a work-life balance is a problem that plagues many workers, especially those who are self-employed.
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Roughly 63% of all uninsured workers are either self-employed or work for firms with fewer than 100 employees, estimates the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
In one of these, salaried workers and the self-employed have to contribute 12% of their earnings to health plans run by managed-care organisations similar to those in the United States.
Germans who prefer to be self-employed so that they can avoid paying salaried workers' full social-security contributions also complain that the dice are loaded against them.
By 2019 the self-employed will account for 40 percent of all American workers.
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The most common self-employed occupations are taxi drivers, farmers and construction workers.
It does not include the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, household workers and unpaid family workers.
One of the biggest problems in our health care system right now is if you're a small business owner or if you're self-employed, you often have such a small number of workers that insurance companies aren't all that interested in your business.
The survey, conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder, polled 3, 892 U.S. workers (employed full-time, not self-employed, non-government) ages 18 and over between May 14 and June 4, 2012.
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Currently, company employees and government workers pay premiums based on income, while the self-employed pay a flat rate.
Recent research by MBO Partners, which provides business infrastructure to self-employed professionals, found that low income was a chief source of unhappiness for dissatisfied independent workers and drives some back into seeking full-time jobs.
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