Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyle, If you're going to hire an assistant you need to get them to fill out a Form W9 (basically their tax id). The hard question becomes is this assistant a contractor or an employee. If they're an employee then you get the fun job of witholding taxes and metching them. The IRS has a publication at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1779.pdf that discusses this. If you're going to pay them less than $600/year it's fairly easy to make them a contractor and just issue a Form 1099 at the end of the year. Brians advice of having them sign a simple contract that says that they are contractors not employees is a good one (if they pass the Independent Contractor test). Our accountant has told us that otherwise at the end of the year the worker can come back and claim they were an employee and the State expects you to now pay their taxes. You could avoid the whole horrendous mess and just go through a temp agency. Yes the temp agency makes money but....it's a whole lot less paperwork. Note, I'm not an accountant just have to live with these rules for a small business. On a photography note my pics are at www.tejasphotos.com ------------------------------------ MicroAssist, Inc. Training & Application Development www.microassist.net 3420 Executive Center Drive Suite G100 Austin, TX 78731 tel: 512-794-8440 ------------------------------------ MicroAssist, Inc. 3420 Executive Center Drive, Suite G100 Austin, TX 78731 http://www.microassist.net Phone: (512) 794-8440 Fax: (512) 794-8742