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[quote=Anonymous]Our 4 year old won’t have a spot to return to daycare until August or Sept. We’ve been juggling but reached the point where we need help.

We have found a babysitter who is available 3 mornings a week and weekends. So far we have hired her for 5 hours a week (9-noon one day, and 10-noon another). We could go up to 7 hours a week and stay below the threshold for paying taxes.

My husband thinks just paying taxes and hiring her more freely (all 3 mornings and sometimes on weekends) is the way to go. I think the taxes look complicated - I’d be willing to do it for a full time employee but for someone helping us for up to 3 mornings a week during the summer it seems like a lot of work.

My solution is to find one (or two) more sitters.

What would you do? Also, is the person we already hired going to bail if we want to withhold taxes? what’s the best way to have this conversation?

The person we’ve hired works for another family 4 hours a day but I don’t know if it’s under the table or if they’re paying taxes too. [/quote]

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