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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?  [b]My WAG is that your employer is just taking advantage of you[/b].[/quote]

I am not a slave or an indentured servant.  I can choose to stop working for him if I don't like the arrangement.  He pays really well by the hour, so it is a good, flexible job for me while I am in grad school even though I have to pay my own employment taxes. If he paid my employment taxes, he would just lower my hourly wage, so he would be spending the same money, I would be making the same money, and the IRS would be getting the same money. [/quote]

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