Reply to people don't realize they have to pay payroll taxes on individual housecleaners

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "people don't realize they have to pay payroll taxes on individual housecleaners"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
I don't think this is true.  I work as a personal assistant and make about $12000 a year from one family.  They issue me a 1099 at the end of the year and I have to pay all taxes, both employee side and employer side, as an independent contractor.  I am not an LLC.  We get our taxes done by a very reputable accountant and my husband is a lawyer who would never run the risk of breaking the rules over something like this.  A housecleaner who comes in once a week or once every two weeks and works for a number of different families can definitely be an independent contractor without being an LLC.  If you issue her a 1099 at the end of the year, the IRS will know that she has to pay taxes on that income and it won't be under the table. [/quote]

Leaving aside the housecleaner issue, I don't see any way at all a personal assistant is not going to be classified as an employee (and once more people-- it's bass-ackwards to say that because you got a 1099 you must be a contractor; whether you are an employee or not is determined by the facts, not by how you paper it).

The very definition of a personal assistant is someone who does stuff for you.  Have you described your work to your accountant and asked him whether you should be treated as an employee or IC?  My WAG is that your employer is just taking advantage of you.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics