Grousing about Workers' Comp - Which of your 1099 contractors are actually W-2 employees?
Posted by CircuitGuy 11 years, 1 month ago to Business
Everything related to payroll is annoying. I wish I could legally just hand people C-Notes and they could take them over to the taxing authorities and hand of a third of them. Maybe that's ridiculous, but how about allowing us to just pay with traceable checks that automatically inform the IRS when you deposit them?
My payroll is unfortunately way down, and my Wokers' Comp provider is on my case for all kinds of details about my revenue, draws, personal payroll, 1099 contractors. **They even asked which of the 1099 contractors were just like W-2 employees but I didn't want to pay the payroll taxes.** WTF? That's basically accusing me of lying. That's frustrating b/c I believe in taxes and I pay all taxes I'm legally required to pay. I _never_ 1099 someone, even BABYSITTERS for my kids, who are legally W-2 employees. Everything's above board. The more money we report having paid in wages, the more people who call us to ask you if those numbers are really right. Someone operating under the table doesn't deal with these calls.
"This shows you had large revenues last year, and this year it's a quarter of last year's. Can that be true?" Do they think business only goes up? 2014 is going to be awesome, though, so they should call if I don't get a big Workers' Comp police next year. My wife's business is doing well at the moment. They should call her and ask why she's so amazing.
I can see why people go with a company like Paychex, but I've had bad experiences with them in the past b/c if you outsource the whole thing and something gets hosed, it's more confusing than having done it yourself and made an error.
I'm not mad at the Workers' Comp auditor. I'm just eager for things to be on the upswing around here.
My payroll is unfortunately way down, and my Wokers' Comp provider is on my case for all kinds of details about my revenue, draws, personal payroll, 1099 contractors. **They even asked which of the 1099 contractors were just like W-2 employees but I didn't want to pay the payroll taxes.** WTF? That's basically accusing me of lying. That's frustrating b/c I believe in taxes and I pay all taxes I'm legally required to pay. I _never_ 1099 someone, even BABYSITTERS for my kids, who are legally W-2 employees. Everything's above board. The more money we report having paid in wages, the more people who call us to ask you if those numbers are really right. Someone operating under the table doesn't deal with these calls.
"This shows you had large revenues last year, and this year it's a quarter of last year's. Can that be true?" Do they think business only goes up? 2014 is going to be awesome, though, so they should call if I don't get a big Workers' Comp police next year. My wife's business is doing well at the moment. They should call her and ask why she's so amazing.
I can see why people go with a company like Paychex, but I've had bad experiences with them in the past b/c if you outsource the whole thing and something gets hosed, it's more confusing than having done it yourself and made an error.
I'm not mad at the Workers' Comp auditor. I'm just eager for things to be on the upswing around here.
If you look at all the crap that the Feral government justifies under the "Commerce Clause" that have nothing to do with interstate commerce, you eventually realize that somewhere in the neighborhood of 85 to 95 cents of every Federal dollar spent is being spent UNCONSTITUTIONALLY. That is, the government takes your money (or borrows money in your name), breaks its agreement with you by violating the Constitution, and spends that money illegally.
And you believe in paying taxes? Chump. Fool. Quisling.
This is only one of many opportunities to give the IRS an excuse to drive the cost of government up. Switching to a consumption tax (like the Fair Tax) ends all of that, being only one of many more sensible solutions to significantly reducing the cost and invasiveness of government.
I still think having employees could be made easier.