Tax cheats are widespread in Texas construction industry

Texas taxpayers are losing $1.2 billion a year in a contracting scheme used by contractors who mislabel workers as independent contractors rather than hourly employees, in order to avoid paying taxes on them. When word got out that the city housing authority was building a $32 million low-income housing complex, local building contractors lined up to get a piece of the action.



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