Employer warning – Labour hire scam

There are times when outsourcing far outweighs keeping jobs in-house, and in fairness that’s how the service industry works. While this alleviates some of the workload for employers, it’s important to do your research properly so you don’t end up getting burned. Recently, Revenue have identified a new and very clever scam.

Employers are unknowingly engaging dodgy payroll processors to disburse payments to employees, the ATO and Superannuation Funds, however these third parties are then withholding the tax payments for themselves and leaving the employer at risk.

For more information refer to the Revenue’s website.

– Posted 18.01.2018

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