Mississippi Studios Down on Its Luck

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Mississippi Studios
more bad news
this
Oregon Employment Department
$6,000 bill in unpaid unemployment taxes.
doesn't look like the OED is going to change its mind anytime soon.
WW
absent a contract containing specific provisions regarding taxation, musicians are automatically deemed employees of the venue at which they are performing.
"being misapplied."
"the courts will rule against us," he says.
CHORAL
"resource, think tank, and legal defense fund and strategy team"
he's optimistic about the group's formation.
have the
law changed altogether.
"a long time to wait."
interview all the non-musician independent contractors to whom the venue has ever written checks to
hundreds of people.
"it's unjust and I won't pay it."

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