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    Default Re: Unsure Of How To Pay My Employees Legally

    Quote Quoting Octagon Girl
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    Thank you for responding back to me! (BTW, your signature is fabulous LOL)
    *grin* Thankee kindly! It's all true, and it amuses me when people get all indignant because...well, I bite!

    No one pays any mind to warning labels anymore. *sigh*

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    I was shown a provision in the code said that just because an worker works from home doesn't automatically make them an IC, and and told that in order to be an IC, they must do the same work for someone else.
    If I must be doing the same sort of work for someone else in order to be an IC, then every company or person I've ever IC'd for is in some DEEP DOODY. Including Google, for whom I IC'd for nearly 5 years.

    That would also include the two clients I am a standing IC for and the 3 or 4 who call upon me in emergencies. I do different work for all of them!

    Nope. That person was misinformed. This article does a nice job of discussing what an IC is.

    I think that JK has given you fantastic advice, and it would be in your best interests to take it. The easiest way to keep out of trouble with the IRS is to ask them to tell you what you are.

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    Default Re: Unsure Of How To Pay My Employees Legally

    Hi everyone!

    Thanks again for everything!

    I forgot to mention that previously I called the IRS on three different occasions and received different answers. One referred me to their checklist, which left me with the conclusion that they would be employees, the other told me it was my choice (gee, thanks. )

    So I've pretty much have thrown my hands up and will be going with employee for the lack of potential hassle. The problem now is trying to find an efficient way to keep track of hours worked since a majority of them will be working from a different location and different work hours.

    Thanks again everyone...another thing I am looking into is letting a temp agency handle my payroll. That would also help out with insurances, WC and payrolling.

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    Default Re: Unsure Of How To Pay My Employees Legally

    verbal anything, especially over the phone, is worthless and not dependable.

    Fill out the ss-8 if you can do so pro-actively or if you already have employees, it would be no problem filling it out. This way you get a determination IN WRITING as to the IRS position.

    keeping time. It depends. There will have to be a lot of trust. That is the nature of the beast.

    You can get GPS recorders for a couple hundred bucks a piece that can be read on your computer. It will time stamp and locate on a map. Each person can be issued a recorder and then either they can download it onto the computer and send it to you or you could collect them and do it yourself.

    Before anybody says you can't do that for whatever reason, realize that UPS does that to every driver they have as well as many many delivery and trucking services. There are a lot of business that use GPS locators everyday.

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