Abstract
The gig economy has emerged as a growing sector of business and economic endeavour
in all countries across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a catalyst for the
speedy and continued growth of the gig economy as internet platforms and other
computer-based communication mechanisms, such as meetings and business interactions
via Teams, Zoom, and Webex, among others, blossomed. Ride-hailing companies have
merged and are here to stay in the variants of Uber, Bolt, and Yango, among others.
Brick-and-mortar businesses, that is, businesses located in physical structures, have given
way to online platform businesses. In all these developments, one begins to wonder how
our labour laws and tax and revenue laws have been able to meet these evolving trends.
This paper examines the gig economy, discussing how the operators in the gig economy
can navigate the tax landscape, using Ghana as the focus of the discussion
in all countries across the globe. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a catalyst for the
speedy and continued growth of the gig economy as internet platforms and other
computer-based communication mechanisms, such as meetings and business interactions
via Teams, Zoom, and Webex, among others, blossomed. Ride-hailing companies have
merged and are here to stay in the variants of Uber, Bolt, and Yango, among others.
Brick-and-mortar businesses, that is, businesses located in physical structures, have given
way to online platform businesses. In all these developments, one begins to wonder how
our labour laws and tax and revenue laws have been able to meet these evolving trends.
This paper examines the gig economy, discussing how the operators in the gig economy
can navigate the tax landscape, using Ghana as the focus of the discussion
Keywords:
Economy
gig
landscape
tax
Full Text
The full text of this article is available as a PDF
You can download the PDF version of this article for easier reading and printing.
Download Full Text PDF