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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
We hire a maid to come by every so often. She usually brings a couple folks to help. By the end of the year, we'll probably go over the tax threshold ($1400?) in payments, but it's for 3 people or so, even though we make out the check to the head person. Assuming I want to comply with the law, must I withhold taxes and/or pay social security, or may I consider the payments to be to three people, so that the total for each is below the threshhold?
And, to spice things up, assume, regardless of relevance, that one of the three also provides sexual favors instead of cleaning.
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I believe they are all independent contractors, especially when there is a business where two of them are under the control of the third. Do the sexual favors come from the person in control, or one of the subserviant ones? If not from the one in control, is the person to whom you are writing the checks in a position of control with respect to when, how, and with what tools or instruments these services are performed? This can make a difference.
