Taxing workers

SIR – The BBC’S current tax issues (report, March 5) highlight the challenges faced by an outdated employment system.

While the law treats employees and contractors differently, both in regard to their employment rights and their tax responsibilities, organisations are incentivised to find loopholes to their benefit, potentially to the ultimate detriment of their employees.

The law has not kept pace with changes in how people are employed and the rapid growth of the “gig economy”. Recent court cases involving Uber and Addison Lee, as well as tax cases like this, are evidence of the need for urgent change.

The Government has committed to consultations. It must act quickly, both to protect workers and to provide much-needed certainty in the law. Joe Egan

President

Law Society of England and Wales London WC2