Talk:Self-employment/Archives/2011

Definition

"Self-employment is the individual pursuit of capitalism". Since when is employement a pursuit of capitalism? There are lots of systems of employment other than capitalism. And particularly, individuals who seek to lead a self-sufficient life trading as self-emplyed individuals (which hardly qualifies as capitalism). Should that first sentence not be changed??

Yes, the definition is nonsense. Marx, for example, counterpoised self-employment to capitalism and argued that the latter was created on the tomb of the former. It needs to be changed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.192.31 (talk) 14:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

The writer appears to be confusing self-employment with sole-propritorshipIRAGuru (talk) 20:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Taxation

Can someone please rewrite the confusing sentence:

Another tax implication is that a self-employed worker must directly pay both the employee and employer portions of the FICA tax, although the regularly employed also pay the full 12.4%, as their income is reduced by approximately 6.2% (so instead of 6.2%, they must pay 12.4% until they make enough that FICA is no longer paid). Self-employed workers must also pay 2.9% instead of 1.45% for Medicare on all income.

"7.65% each by employer and corporation" => Is that supposed to be "7.65% each by employee and corporation"?

There are many problems with that sentence. More important, though, is that the whole taxation section is all trees and no forest, and, what's more, taxation is the least of a self-employed worker's problems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Avanyu (talk • contribs) 00:54, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

UK section clarifications needed

"When working from home clearance is required from the local authority to use part of the home as business premises."

Wouldn't this be true for certain types of business only, and probably certain size of staff?

• Almost certainly - I'm a self employed person (Freelancer sound/lighting guy) and I don't have to tell the local council. SheffGruff 01:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

"statutory public liability insurance cover"

Does this include sole traders?

• PLI is not statutory either for people such as myself - employer's liability is, but I don't HAVE to hold PLI. It would be foolish for me not to, however. SheffGruff 01:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

"statutory public liability insurance cover"

Does this apply to all or only limited liability companies?

"modifying premises to be disabled friendly"

Only if there are a certain number or more, of employees I think? Adytum72a 19:30, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• Again inaccurate - I worked in retail before my current life and was trained about the effect of the UK DDA - it requires you to take all PRACTICAL action to make your premises accessible to the public. For example, if you are running a small shop with a two step entrance, the law would hold you to have some kind of permanent or temporary ramp structure for wheelchair access. However, if you are running a two floor shop where installing a lift would be the only sensible option for wheelchair access, and this would put you out of business due to the cost, it isn't practical, so you don't have to do it. Offering customers an alternative would always be wise however, such as a printed catalogue. SheffGruff 01:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Niche product

The article for Niche product doesn't exist at the time of this writing, so I changed the link to Niche market as (IMO) the closest descriptive article. If anybody finds a closer match (or writes an article about a niche product), please do change it to the more appropriate resource. Night Goblin (talk) 14:47, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

organisation

would it be a good idea to separate UK from US in the headings? From a newbie Open Research (talk) 19:00, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

External links

Is the National Association of the Self Employed link really appropriate? It looks to be a for profit organization that provides services for an annual subscription fee rather than a general information source. The only information that I can find for free (from the front page) is some generic headlines. It may provide a useful service, but one isn't able to evaluate it without paying first. When I see an external link like that, I expect it to be informational on the topic. This seems more in the nature of an advertisement. Mdfst13 (talk) 18:39, 5 October 2008 (UTC)