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No 1099, it needed to be a W2. What made it difficult was: finding out we needed to do anything at all, finding out what that “anything” even was, finding inst
by nkrisc 3y ago
No 1099, it needed to be a W2.
What made it difficult was: finding out we needed to do anything at all, finding out what that “anything” even was, finding instructions for doing it, parsing the instructions and figuring out if we were reading the correct instructions, figuring out if the various exceptions and other special clauses applied, researching those, then figuring out how to actually do any of this, and so on, and then again a second time for state taxes.
Nevermind going down the rabbit whole of trying to figure out if we need an EIN and then repeating the same discovery and learning process for just that small part of the whole entire thing.
Honestly it would have been a full time job for me to successfully navigate it all. I don’t see how it’s possible to do without already being a CPA or accountant of some sort. It’s an entire domain of knowledge and I had almost none of that knowledge. There’s too much else going on in my life to begin to delve into all that.
All this for a baby sitter 16 hours a week.
- kanbara 3y ago> “all this for…” — you’re employing someone for 40% a full time duration. of course you need to do the right thing, ensure they get the right wage, if you need to pay benefis, etc. this is such a privileged position and you think you should’ve just been able to pay cash and potentially screw someone over?
- nkrisc 3y agoThat’s not even remotely close to what I said. I went through all the trouble because I thought it was the right thing to do and I wanted to do right by the babysitter. It’s why I ended up paying an accountant a larger lump of money than I would have liked to in order to get it all sorted out. Im complaining how difficult it is to do the right thing.
- neltnerb 3y agoSorry about that other poster, I appreciate your answer to my question. Thinking it's a lot for an individual household to have to identify and do this much paperwork for childcare is an entirely reasonable response. As is doing taxes in the US in general... it can be both obnoxiously overboard and also be well intended. I did not read anything in your post that suggested you resented the babysitter or having to pay money to do it properly. I read the exact opposite, that more people would if the process were not so burdensom of people who obviously have a child and so presumably not a ton of time for paperwork. After all, you did it properly... what's to get angry about other than the topic of the original article, that tax paperwork is overboard?
- jjav 3y ago> you think you should’ve just been able to pay cash and potentially screw someone over You're only benefitting the babysitter by paying them cash, big win for them. And benefitting yourself to avoid all that payroll hassle that nobody understands. Win-win.