Cabinet Breaks Promise: Fines for Civil Servants in Benefits Scandal

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650 self-employed professionals who helped handle the benefits scandal face the prospect of having to repay up to 10,000 euros. The Tax and Customs Administration is penalizing them because they were active at the ministry as ‘false self-employed’. The cabinet previously promised them that the ministry would reimburse the back taxes, but that promise has been withdrawn.

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A sad story about Our Government that could make you want to cry, were it not for the fact that it concerns freelancers hired for hefty sums who are supposed to help people who have been completely destroyed by a ruthless government. But here is the situation. The recovery from the benefits scandal hasn't been going very well for a while. That is why the government deployed freelancers to do the work of regular civil servants. But! At the same t…