Re: Self-employed consultant questions

Ted Cruz is right. The IRS should be gutted and the tax code made simple
enough that you can do your taxes on a post card.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 409-267-4027
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From: Consult400 [mailto:consult400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Deborah Havlik
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 8:48 AM
To: consult400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Consult400] Self-employed consultant questions

I had a long term contract in early 2000s. Also got audited. Disallowed all
of my travel - client was in a different state. Had to hire tax accountant.
Very expensive for me for both accountant and what I had to pay to the IRS.
I had receipts for everything.

Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 07:02:04 -0800
From: adrienne1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: consult400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Consult400] Self-employed consultant questions

If you are a contractor - getting paid on a w2 - do you have to file
quarterly as well?

On 3/8/2016 4:20 PM, Robert Lancaster wrote:

Dan:

Sadly, I can tell you that, at least in my case, the IRS went after ME,

not the companies where I had contracted. They took my car, my wife's car
and an old Junker we had as well, and sold them at auction. A few years
later, they forced us to sell our house, and took every penny we got for it.

The incident with the cars was in the mid-to-late 1990s, and the house

thing was in 2002 or 2003.

My best advice to you (or to any other contractor):

KEEP FILING THOSE QUARTERLIES, AND FILE THEM ON TIME!!!


-Robert (rslancastr@xxxxxxx)



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From: Dan <dan27649@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Consulting on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)

<consult400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 11:39 am
Subject: Re: [Consult400] Self-employed consultant questions

Thanks, gentlemen.

Rob, have I previously mentioned Kalamazoo? I just finished a stint

there,

but didn't think I'd referenced this anywhere on the midrange lists.

Also,

ditto on the IRS cracking down on contractors. I found:

https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employed/Independent-
Contractor-Defined

It seems pretty clear (and it's how I remember it when it was news) that
the IRS actually goes after the "employer", and not the contractor, so

I'm

guessing I can't get hurt if the IRS comes looking. Does anyone have
experience with that?

I've done all my own taxes up to this point, but I think I'm going to

have

to bite the bullet and find a CPA for this and other new tax situations
that are coming up this year.

- Dan

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

IDK if the ICCP (Institute for the Certification of Computer
Professionals) has this information available. I let my certification
lapse quite some time ago but I still get emails.

I also seem to remember the IRS cracking down on long term contractors
about 35 years ago. Kalamazoo used to be flush with these and the IRS
decided that was a time when they should just put them on payroll. Of
course, a great number of them just had to scramble for work elsewhere.


Rob Berendt

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