Several groups representing Canadian truckers are calling on the CRA to help end what they call a 'tax scam' impacting their industry, saying that it has reached the 'crisis level.
Stephen Laskowski, President of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, speaks during a press conference declaring a crisis in Canada's trucking sector on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
“What distinguishes these individuals from ‘owner-operators’ is they do not own, lease or operate a vehicle. Instead they drive the carrier’s vehicles and are virtually indistinguishable from an ‘employee’” the CTA says. “Put into its simplest form, Driver Inc. is a practice of misclassifying drivers of company owned equipment as independent contractors in order to sell their driving services back to that carrier,” explained John McCann, the national freight and tank haul director for Teamsters Canada. “By doing this, those carriers are able to reduce their operational expenses and drastically undercut industry rates by avoiding payment of mandatory employee related service deductions.
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