This can be a little complicated, especially where copyrights and independent contractor rules apply.
It may also be true that your employer was classifying you as an independent contractor.
The NTSB investigated and found an independent contractor was to blame for rupturing the line.
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If the same individual is an independent contractor, the employer is much less likely to have liability.
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Think of the independent contractor vs. employee line as a sheet of ice on a pristine winter lake.
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Connectrode is a game that I developed independently in 2011, while I was working as an independent contractor.
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Since being an independent contractor is being self-employed, persons who were independent contractors before you hire them still qualify.
The company that previously used the independent contractor may not contest the claim.
As an independent contractor, he didn't have to keep to anyone else's schedule.
Last Thursday the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission filed charges against Ballas, an independent contractor with Global Arena Capital Corp.
The first is if the employer had no reasonable basis for treating the worker as an independent contractor for tax purposes.
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Such issues seldom are raised because the employer nearly always has a reasonable basis for treating a worker as an independent contractor.
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Federal revenues and the Social Security trust fund are far too important to depend on the fuzzy distinction between employee and independent contractor.
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If you are an independent contractor who provides a service or sells a product, you already know the value of your own commodities.
You should have also been asked to complete a federal form W-4 (for an employee) or a federal form W-9 (for an independent contractor).
Adding to the confusion for small firms is that an employer's view of who is an independent contractor may not align with the government's.
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The right the independent contractor has to ask the IRS for a determination whether he or she is an employee or independent contractor (ouch).
Within days, Mr. Ringel had signed three jobs for the independent contractor, most of them referred from Mr. Ringel's clients at the other flooring company.
Before classifying a worker, it is critical to have a basic understanding of the tests applied in making the distinction between employee and independent contractor.
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Conversely, an independent contractor does a one-time job for you for a fee on his own schedule with his own tools, in his own way.
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Prior to the Postal Act of 1863, intercity letters were either held at the destination post office for pick-up or delivered by an independent contractor.
What makes someone an employee and not just an independent contractor?
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Yet determining who is truly an independent contractor is not easy.
If you were, in fact, properly classified as an independent contractor (and not an employee), the salon owner would not have been required to withhold taxes.
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There, the U.S. Tax Court ruled a British Consulate trade officer was an employee not an independent contractor even though the Consulate and worker thought otherwise.
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The status of a worker as an independent contractor or an employee is important for federal income and employment taxes (think IRS and Social Security Administration).
It can be used as evidence of a legitimate independent contractor arrangement, when taken into consideration with the other indicia of the relationship between the parties.
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Where Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 applies, reclassification of a worker from independent contractor to employee for tax purposes can only have prospective effect.
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In the union lawyers' world, every player would enter the league as an unrestricted free agent, an independent contractor free to sell his services to any team.
You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done).
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