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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s no excuse for not paying UI on your nanny.  I think its nice to pay your nanny not to work but I don’t really blame anyone that is not willing to do that for months on end.  But you should give at least some severance and don’t contest their UI filing.  [/quote]

+1. I’ve met wealthy people who pay their nannies off the books because paying employer taxes is “too complicated” and this way the nanny working off the books gets “to keep more of her salary.”  Yeah, well now all of those people who have been employing your nannies illegally, I hope you keep paying them so that they get the same unemployment insurance a legally employee nanny who has been paying into the system would be entitled to.  [/quote]

The nannies have some responsibility for accepting positions that don’t pay on the books. I’ve walked out of countless interviews after hearing “we don’t do taxes,” which means they don’t want to deal with the hassle of following IRS rules. If more nannies did the same, people would not the option of skipping taxes. [/quote]

It goes both ways. Many nannies want to be paid in cash because they din’t want to have taxes deducted. [/quote]

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