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as long as you are following the law and paying appropriate payroll taxes you should be fine.
if you are not, it is the crime of tax evasion you should be worried about, not a pay letter.
He reprinted a copy of the form I gave him claiming that he wanted to make it look more official.! I read through it and I almost positive it was the same content as my original copy but still a little uneasy and paranoid that I may have missed something. If by some chance that I signed something intended to hurt my business I want to know if it would be legally binding even though everything is under my spouses name. Sorry for acing so paranoid but I am just really worried about the well being of my family. It would kill me to know that I somehow ruined things.
if you do not know what you signed nobody can really tell what effect it may have.
If all that the form said is what you have posted here, and if you are paying all the appropriate taxes, I can't see any way that it can hurt you or your business, no matter whose name the business is under.
Now, if there was more to the form than you've indicated, or if you are in any way failing to pay all the appropriate payroll taxes, all bets are off. But as already indicated, that is a very common request and the reason he provided you is in no way unusual.
So my signature can negatively affect a business that is under my spouses name? I guess that is my main concern
THERE IS NOTHING IN THE LETTER THAT YOU SIGNED THAT CAN HURT THE BUSINESS, NO MATTER WHOSE NAME IT IS UNDER, UNLESS YOU ARE FAILING TO PAY ALL THE ASSOCIATED PAYROLL TAXES!!!!!
And if that is the case, then the letter can hurt you whether it's in your spouse's name or not.
You are making far, far too much of whose name the business is under. For the purpose of this issue, it doesn't matter squat whose name it is under.
Pick one:
1. I (or my spouse) am paying 100% of the appropriate taxes for this individual's pay.
2. I (or my spouse) am not paying all of the appropriate taxes for this individual's pay.
If 1. then NOTHING IN THE LETTER CAN HURT THE BUSINESS NO MATTER WHAT AND NO MATTER WHOSE NAME THE BUSINESS IS IN
If 2. then the business can be hurt no matter who signed it and no matter whose name the business is in. But it won't be because of anything the employee did - it will be because of your failure to pay the taxes and you'd be in just as much trouble no matter how it was found out.
So pick one and deal with it.