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Ask the taxgirl: “Temporary” Employees and 1099s

28 September 2010

Tweet Taxpayer asks: I was laid off from my job six months ago as a legal receptionist. Before I lost my job, I had worked there for more than five years. My boss used to read your blog which is how I know about you. Even though working at a law firm is the only [...]

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Tax Break for New Hires: Is it enough?

28 April 2010

Tweet The most recent statistics show that the federal unemployment rate is at 10.2%, the highest in more than 20 years. Despite indications that the nation’s economy might otherwise be improving, most Americans agree that unless folks can find jobs, a complete recovery is not likely. With pressure from constituents to try to turn things [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Temps as Employees

24 February 2009

Tweet Taxpayer asks: Hi Kelly, Here is the situation i worked for a doctor’s office for two months and she informed me that I did not need to pay taxes because I was a temp. Ten months after I left the job she started asking me for my information because she said the tax laws [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Payments Made Under the Table

28 January 2009

Tweet Taxpayer asks: I was working as an independent contractor in this small company. At that time, I was getting paid with no taxes being withheld. I assumed I was getting paid under the table, but 6 months after I stopped working there I received a phone call from them asking for my SSN. I [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Gifts to Spouses

18 December 2008

Tweet Taxpayer asks: I think this should be an easy question for you… are monetary gifts ($250) given to employee spouses taxable as W-2 wages to the employee? Taxgirl says: Au contraire. This one feels like it should be easy but it isn’t. And the reason it’s not easy is because I am fairly certain [...]

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taxgirl Holiday Tax Article on law.com

26 November 2008

Tweet I was honored to find that one of my articles for the Legal Intelligencer was posted on law.com. You can read the piece, which focuses on tax issues related to holiday gifts and bonuses for employees, by clicking here.

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Cell Phone Tax Continues to Generate Publicity

16 August 2008

Tweet I received a lot of feedback via email and twitter on the story that I posted about the IRS stance on taxing employee cell phone use. Yesterday, I was advised that NPR ran a story about this very issue on Thursday. While I didn’t hear the story on the radio, I did read the [...]

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Blackwater Leaks

27 October 2007

Tweet Okay, not really leaks but it made for a clever headline. The Swamp has published a letter that Senator John Kerry (D – MA) wrote to the Senate Committee on Finance regarding the possibility that Blackwater has misclassified employees for tax purposes. The letter follows: October 26, 2007 The Honorable Max Baucus Chairman Committee [...]

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iPhone, uTax?

29 June 2007

Tweet Working at Apple just got a little sweeter, it seems. Apple has announced that it is giving free iPhones to all 18,000 of its employees, at a cost of over $10 million to the company. Each of the models is worth about $600. Cool, right? The new phones are set to be distributed to [...]

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