From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Sep 22 11:21:55 2010 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-members); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:21:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OyTx4-0002UF-AO for llg-members@lojban.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:21:55 -0700 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:21:54 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-members@lojban.org Subject: [llg-members] Re: 2010 Annual Meeting - Old Business Message-ID: <20100922182154.GT30871@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-members@lojban.org References: <4C8C2009.7060606@lojban.org> <4C8F787E.9000101@lojban.org> <4C97E04A.4030007@lojban.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-archive-position: 970 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-members-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-members@lojban.org X-list: llg-members On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:57:17PM -0700, Theodore Reed wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 15:56, John Cowan wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Bob LeChevalier > > wrote: > > > > > Neither Robin nor I knows the possible ramifications of > > > "hiring" Lindar - whether we would have to treat him as an > > > employee and do withholding and social security, and other > > > legal stuff. If anyone knows someone with relevant expertise > > > that they could ask, it would be much appreciated. > > > > You want to hire her as a 1099 independent contractor so that > > you just have an invoice to pay. Paid employees involve huge > > amounts of paperwork. > > > > > > > You can pay any contractor up to $600 without having to report the > payment. > > Setting someone up as a 1099 isn't that hard, as I recall. You > need to have them fill out a "request for taxpayer ID" form, and > then at the end of the year you send out 1099s and whatever the > 1099 summary is. > > Lindar would have to understand that ey's liable for paying taxes > on the received amount emself, though, which includes normal > income tax *and* a self-employment tax. > > -- bancus, who used to run the financial part of a small business, > but is *not* an accountant Well, I'm not going to research it myself, and I don't see anybody stepping forward. I say we go for the $600 rule, pay Lindar exactly that, and take our lumps if it turns out to be a mistake. I so move, to be automatically withdrawn if anyone strenuously objects. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/