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Subject:Re: IRS: employee or contractor? From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"Charter, Tara M." <Charter -dot- Tara -at- mayo -dot- edu> Date:Mon, 22 May 2000 20:16:47 -0400
"Charter, Tara M." wrote:
>
> Scenario
> You are a contractor, and you are using working at the client site, using
> their PCs and software, and you've been there for over a year... then you
> get questioned by the IRS...
>
> has this happened to you? how do you avoid it?
>
Bad News There is no way of avoiding it. Only dealing with it. For
starters go to http://www.irs.gov/forms_pubs/pubs.html and download:
pub 15 Circular E; pub 34; pub 915; and note 989.
Then, now that you have some background, interview and hire an
experienced tax professional, attorney or accountant. (Preferable one
that worked for the IRS for at least four years in a professional
capacity.) Ask him/her detailed questions about the number of cases
he/she handled involving this issue. Do not settle for evasive or
condescending answers. consult with your client. They have a vested
interest in the determination. Perhaps they will even pay for the tax
professional.
HTH
--
Peter
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity," - Einstein-
