The IRS has extended its Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, whereby taxpayers who believe they have erroneously classified workers as independent contractors instead of employees may file an application with the IRS. Thisallows them to have federal payroll tax exposure drastically reduced (by as much as 90 percent for some) for the years in which workers should have been treated as employees.
Puppet does this work by providing system administrators a declarative language that allows a configuration file to be described and then filled in differently based on the role that the computer on which the configuration file exists is playing.