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Kate Trower wrote:
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<div>I find myself taking a crash-course in 1099 employment. If
anyone on the list is currently operating under a 1099 or has in the
past, I would love to pick your brain about how you have made it work
for you in Humboldt.<br>
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Kate, I have some 1099 experience but I am not entirely sure it would
be helpful. I wanted to do consulting work for some large firms (Sun,
IBM, etc.) and found that they would not directly hire consultants (or
contractors) directly because of the fairly complicated rules around
whether someone was "really" a contractor as opposed to a stealth
employee w/o benefits. For two or three years I was operating under a
1099 relationship with an intermediate corporation in Florida. <br>
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Eventually what I wound up doing was incorporating, as the large
companies had no problem with establishing an agreement with a
corporate entity but would not do that with individuals. So my
corporation (an S corporation) was able to offer my services as a
consultant and actually even helped one or two other consultants in
similar situations. <br>
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The "corporate veil" meant that the 1099 relationship was between my
company and me (or my company and another consultant) if investigated,
and NOT between my company and IBM (for example), whereas if I had been
directly engaged it would have been, and the burden of showing a
legitimate relationship would have been on them.<br>
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The corporate identity, even as an S corp, has also made things like
expense reports and receipts much easier for the prime, which is also
appreciated. <br>
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Dave Thewlis<br>
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Happy Holidays,<br>
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Kate Trower<br>
408-470-9428<br>
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