RSS Bonanza Finance Taxes and the Gig Economy

Taxes and the Gig Economy

Like it or not, the gig economy is here to stay, especially for younger workers and job searchers. While, according to a study from Intuit, 34 percent of workers under 30 are working temporary and/or independent contractor jobs at any given time, and statistics from the BLS show about another 10 percent are permanently freelancers or self employed, nearly 80% of millennials have participated in the gig economy at least once, whether as Uber drivers, contract bloggers and writers, social media marketers, participants in brand-new unstable startups, or at more traditional employment agencies. That’s not to say all of them want to stay there… only 1 out of 11 don’t want to eventually work a standard full time job. Read more…