"face time" at the office

[Susan W Gallagher]

It is definitely one of the twenty questions the IRS asks when making the
determination. There's a slick IRS brochure on the subject here:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1779.pdf
and a nice summary as well as some useful insight here:
http://library.findlaw.com/1999/Aug/1/129070.html

HTH!
-Sue Gallagher


On 6/27/07, Pro TechWriter <pro.techwriter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> I am wondering, if you are a consultant on a 1099 basis, and the
> "client" says you must come to the office every day, will the IRS make a
> case for your employment coming under a "contracting" category, instead of
> an independent consultant? That also would mean the "client" would be
> liable
> for paying in Social Security for you, and providing a W2 at the end of
> the
> year, not a 1099.
>
> Does anyone know about this? It seems to me that this used to be true (you
> cannot be required to clock in at a client's site every day if you are
> 1009)
> but I am not sure if it is true in June 2007.
>