{"id":1013,"date":"2020-11-20T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/toezicht-arbeidsrelaties-weer-opgeschort\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:54","slug":"supervision-of-employment-relations-suspended-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/toezicht-arbeidsrelaties-weer-opgeschort\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervision of employment relations suspended again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8161\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20200707_Box-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve compared it to a soap opera before. And this year, another chapter is being added. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksoverheid.nl\/documenten\/kamerstukken\/2020\/11\/16\/zesde-voortgangsbrief-werken-als-zelfstandige\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a> In a report to the House of Representatives, the Government states that enforcement measures relating to the monitoring of the classification of employment relationships are to be postponed once again.<\/p>\n<h4>Tax-efficient<\/h4>\n<p>Tax rules still make it extremely attractive to be taxed as a self-employed person (ZZP). After all, 14% of business profits is exempt (the SME profit exemption). Furthermore, if the entrepreneur works sufficient hours in the business, they are also entitled to the self-employed person\u2019s allowance. Although this allowance is currently being phased out, this is taking place over a period of several years and a good \u20ac3,000 remains available.<\/p>\n<h4>Lower labour costs<\/h4>\n<p>It is also advantageous for the client to hire a self-employed person. After all, you are not bound by employment law regulations, such as continued payment of wages in the event of sickness and rules regarding dismissal. Furthermore, you do not pay any social security contributions or pension contributions.<\/p>\n<h4>Pseudo-self-employment<\/h4>\n<p>It goes without saying that, in practice, this leads people to seek independence. That\u2019s fine for self-employed people who are truly able to stand on their own two feet. But it\u2019s undesirable for self-employed people who work in a situation comparable to that of employees.<\/p>\n<p>The government has been looking for ways to tackle this bogus self-employment (and exploitation) for years. In the meantime, enforcement has (largely) been put on hold. This is euphemistically referred to as the \u2018enforcement moratorium\u2019. This is now being extended, meaning we remain stuck in the situation we described in our article at the end of 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/nieuws\/news-about-the-tax-position-of-self-employed-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latest news on the tax position of self-employed workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hebben het al eerder vergeleken met een soap. En ook dit jaar wordt er weer een hoofdstuk aan toegevoegd. In een brief aan de Tweede Kamer meldt de regering dat de handhaving in het kader van het toezicht op de kwalificatie van arbeidsrelaties opnieuw wordt uitgesteld. Fiscaal interessant Nog steeds maken de fiscale regels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}