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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's the rules https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc756 Note age caveat for SS and Medicare tax. Note it's $2700 in a year. She may not need to file taxes but might want to or already be doing that https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/who-needs-to-file-a-tax-return [/quote] That is what I found when poking around. Looks like we’ll need to make her an employee and talk to our accountant about paying back taxes. [/quote] If you do that and she’s required to pay the employee portion of the taxes, she will very likely leave you. It’s practically unheard of for an occasional babysitter to pay taxes out of her cash wages. That’s why you pick up those gigs-you make some extra cash and move it along. No one is trying to work three hours a week (sometimes, at that) to file paperwork with the government. [/quote] Whenever I had a babysitter hit the IRS limit I would always pay the employee portion of her medicare/ SS as well. You don't have to deduct it from her wages. You do have to report the amount that you paid as income so she might have to pay income taxes on that[/quote] Right, so she would have to file taxes and pay money she didn’t expect to pay. You should reimburse her for that if you’re changing your agreement and she will be taking home less than anticipated. Regardless of the letter of the law, this isn’t how these types of agreements typically work. It’s likely that the trouble alone isn’t worth it to her. [/quote] OK, taxes are obligations of the employee; she should certainly know that she is "expected to pay" taxes when she earns money. If she worked at McDonalds would she expect to not pay taxes and have the rate quoted to her be the same she would earn?[/quote]
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