Anonymous wrote:You can do it yourself but we use a company to do the taxes.
http://mybreedlove.com/ or
http://www.gtm.com/ are two big commonly used companies. I THINK we pay a couple hundred a quarter ($800/year) for them to make sure all the taxes are filed. Our nanny also gets direct deposit through the company. We basically give them our check account info, nanny's checking account info, social security #, addresses, etc. and they do everything.
For checking that they are legal, once you pick the person, there is a new hire form you fill out (given to us by breedlove but you can get it from the government) when you set up the tax accounts and there it says you must view in person one or two of the documents in person (passport, ss card, etc) and you sign it that you viewed it and that is checking if the person is legal.
I'm not an expert but that's how it worked for us.