{"id":13302,"date":"2015-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/florida-says-uber-drivers-are-employees-but-fedex-other-cases-promise-long-battle\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:02:02","slug":"florida-says-uber-drivers-are-employees-but-fedex-other-cases-promise-long-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/florida-says-uber-drivers-are-employees-but-fedex-other-cases-promise-long-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Says Uber Drivers Are Employees, But FedEx, Other Cases Promise Long Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

www.forbes.com \u2014 Uber promises good open-ended pay, flexible hours, even discounts on vehicles. But employee status? No way. Health and dental coverage? Tax withholding? Nope. Darrin McGillis was a driver in Florida who was in a car accident so could no longer pick up passengers. Buzzfeed reported on the case in which McGillis couldn\u2019t get Uber to help, so he filed for unemployment. Hey, I qualify since I\u2019m effectively an employee, McGillis claimed.<\/p>\n

Read more about Florida Says Uber Drivers Are Employees, But FedEx, Other Cases Promise Long Battle<\/a><\/p>\n

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I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know. www.forbes.com \u2014 Uber promises good open-ended pay, flexible hours, even discounts on vehicles. But employee status? No […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22531,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions\/22531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}