Employing Household Help: How to Avoid Tax and Legal Problems

By Chad R. Turner

A survival guide for absolutely anyone who employs full- or part-time household help. If you pay as little as $80 a month to a baby-sitter, gardener, maid, or any other household help, you are responsible for complying with a host of complicated state and federal rules and regulations. If that sounds like a lot of trouble to go to just to have someone mow your lawn a few times a year, you could do what many people have done: ignore the law and hope you never get caught. But just remember, being discovered could cost you a small fortune and have you tied up in legal red tape well into the next century. So what's the solution? Employing Household Help. A complete preparation and planning kit for the tens of millions of Americans who employ full- or part-time household help, it guides you safely through the maze of codes, statutes, rules, and regulations. Written in plain English and following an easy-reference format, it tells you everything you need to know about complying with Immigration and Naturalization Service laws, liability and insurance issues, filling out IRS paperwork, and much more. The only single-source guide covering all the statutory requirements for employing household help--from baby-sitters and nannies, to maids and gardeners Includes all Social Security, INS, and IRS forms--both completed samples and usable blanks with step-by-step instructions for filling them out Covers the highly publicized, and confusing, "nanny tax" issues, as well as the new IRS regulations Quick and easy-to-follow summaries of Department of Labor, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Social Security, and Internal Revenue Service rules and regulations

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471078085
• ISBN13: 9780471078081
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.6" x 8.5"