Advocates say dozens of Chicago-area Lyft drivers who are working through the immigration process have stopped being paid by ride-hailing giant, which blames tax filing errors.
The Illinois Independent Drivers Guild says there are about 40 drivers in the Chicago area who have earned money — in some cases thousands of dollars — that has been withheld because Lyft says it received a "no match" letter from the IRS. That means their individual tax ID numbers don’t match records in the federal system.
"SUBSCRIBE TO FOX 32 ON YOUTUBEDriver Rogelio Vazquez said with about $7,500 of his Lyft earnings in limbo, he couldn’t keep up with payments on the car he bought to supplement the income from his landscaping business and moonlighting in the local professional wrestling circuit. The car was repossessed two weeks ago.Vazquez, who came to the U.S. from Mexico in 1980, said the IRS told him there was nothing wrong with the tax information he submitted.
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