It’s my annual Taxes from A to Z series! If you’re wondering how to figure basis for cryptocurrency or whether you can claim home office expenses during COVID, you won’t want to miss a single letter. F is for FTE. FTE is one of those terms that many folks had never heard of before the…
After arguing for years that its drivers were not employees, the ride-share company Uber announced last week that it had settled with tens of thousands of drivers who claimed that they had been misclassified as independent contractors. The timing of the announcement wasn’t coincidental, coming just one day before Uber’s initial public offering (IPO) on the…
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 around,…
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 have…
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.
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 NPR…
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 on…
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 employees…