GSK work­ers may be in trou­ble with UK au­thor­i­ties; EU pledges €550M to fight AIDS, tu­ber­cu­lo­sis and malar­ia

→ A con­tin­gent of GSK $GSK em­ploy­ees might be in trou­ble with the UK tax au­thor­i­ties. On Sun­day, the Fi­nan­cial Times re­port­ed that HM Rev­enue & Cus­toms ac­cused near­ly 1,500 of GSK’s con­trac­tors of be­ing “dis­guised em­ploy­ees” in iden­ti­cal let­ters to work­ers in the IT and bio­med­ical sci­ences di­vi­sions at the British drug­mak­er. The work­ers have been fil­ing their tax re­turns as self-em­ployed in­di­vid­u­als, HM­RC al­leged in the let­ters. “Whether a work­er is em­ployed or self-em­ployed for tax pur­pos­es is not a mat­ter of choice. In­stead, you need to look at the facts of the work­ing re­la­tion­ship be­tween you and GSK,” the re­port not­ed, cit­ing the let­ters.

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