What You Need to Know

• Uber and a subsidiary, Rasier, paid $78 million in past-due taxes and $22 million in penalties and interest to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Unemployment Trust Fund.
• Uber said the payment is not a settlement and it still regards its drivers as independent contractors.
• A legal observer said the payment might be considered a concession that Uber has a losing case under New Jersey definition of an employee.

Uber ‘s $100 million payment in overdue payroll taxes to New Jersey is a concession that its classification of ride-hailing drivers as independent contractors is vulnerable under the state’s laws, some observers said.

The company and a subsidiary, Rasier LLC, paid $78 million in past-due taxes and $22 million in penalties and interest to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Unemployment Trust Fund. The payment, first reported in the New York Times, was accompanied by proclamations from both sides.

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