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Hiring Independent Contractors: The Employers' Legal Guide (Working with Independent Contractors: The Employer's Legal Guide)
Hiring Independent Contractors The Employers' Legal Guide - Working with Independent Contractors: The Employer's Legal Guide Author:Stephen Fishman Using independent contractors can save you a bundle in payroll taxes, health insurance costs, workers? compensation premiums and overtime pay. But the rules about who qualifies are complicated, and the IRS and state revenue agencies keep a close eye on businesses that hire independent contractors. Misclassifying a worker can result in seriou... more »s financial penalties in a state or federal audit. Now for the first time in decades, the IRS has made the rules about hiring independent contractors a lot simpler. New IRS rules make it easier for employers to prove that a worker is an independent contractor; they also allow employers that have misclassified workers to pay reduced assessments and penalties?or avoid them altogether. Hiring Independent Contractors reflects these important IRS changes and shows employers how to: * assess who qualifies as an independent contractor
* hire ICs without risking an audit
* retain ownership of intellectual property when using ICs
* handle an IRS audit
* take advantage of the IRS's "Safe Harbor" law All independent contractor agreements are included on disk and as tear-outs.« less