In mid-December 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for employment tax referrals that arise from investigations of workers’ possible employment misclassifications.
This agreement follows a pattern of similar partnerships entered into by other federal agencies during the Biden Administration that also have been crafted specifically to deal with the classification issue.
“We are determined to identify and resolve labor violations by employers who benefit by misclassifying employees as independent contractors and deprive them of the protections of the labor standards laws we enforce,” said Jessica Looman, principal deputy wage and hour administrator.
In 2011, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) and the IRS first entered into a similar MOU to allow both agencies to use their resources to promote employer compliance with obligations to pay employee’ and related employment taxes.
The new MOU explains that the two agencies will establish a methodology for exchanging investigative leads, complaints and referrals of possible violations “to the extent allowable by law and policy.” However, the agencies assert that the terms of the MOU do not provide for any exchange of federal tax information.
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