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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes apply since used w-2. Btw nannies are not 1099 and you are paying double taxes for that job. Parents have you file 1099 when they don't want to pay their portion of employment taxes.[/quote]
That's why self-employed people have higher rates. They're stupid if they don't.[/quote]

According to the IRS and other portions of the government, a nanny can't be self-employed.

Questions to determine employment:
1. Who sets the days/times worked?  If it's the person working, they might be self-employed, if not, they aren't.
2. Who provides the supplies used?  If it's the person working, they might be self-employed, if not, they aren't.
3. Can the person scheduled to work select and send in a replacement without notifying the person who hired them?  If it's the person working, they might be self-employed, if not, they aren't.

Usually this discussion is for housekeepers, but it works for any household employee.  Very few household employees are self-employed.  Of the ones that are, they are usually housekeepers who work a set number of hours for each person whenever it works in the housekeeper's schedule, they have the ability to send a partner to clean the house if they aren't free, and they bring their own appliances and cleaning supplies.  The other example used is usually of a maintenance or home repair person, and the same questions apply.

Rates for work are individual to each person.  Some self-employed people undervalue themselves and/or are unwilling to negotiate higher wages, while some domestic employees who receive a W-2 value themselves appropriately and negotiate for what they think are appropriate wages and benefits.[/quote]

I'm a nanny and I'm self employed, so there goes your argument![/quote]

Different poster here. I do know quite a few INA nanny members who are legally self-employed. While it's true that most aren't, that does not mean that some nannies can't be legally self-employed.

To the poster who keeps saying nannies "can't" be self-employed, please just stop. You are 100% wrong.[/quote]

Again, according to the IRS, unless you can answer the questions in ways that make you independent, you are a domestic employee.  I asked because I wanted to be clear on the subject, but you are welcome to talk to them yourself.[/quote]

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