A bill relating to the independent contractor status of individuals for employment tax purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Internal Revenue Service not to adopt a position which is inconsistent with a general audit position, a regulation, or a ruling in effect on January 1, 1976, in determining whether an individual is an employee for purposes of social security taxation, unemployment taxation, and income tax withholding. Prohibits the treatment of any individual as an employee of any employer, if such employer consistently treated the individual, in good faith, as an independent contractor in reasonable reliance on either past IRS audit practice, published rulings or judicial precedent, recognized practice in the industry, or long-standing treatment of the individual as an independent contractor.…