@1cent wrote:
Wouldn't you have about the same number either way? Or do you mean that all the companies that pay you less than $600 in a year add up to 100?
@stormraven73 wrote:
Did anyone see the email from MSPA about "defending evaluator independence?" I'm not sure whether they had this issue in mind or it was just a timely topic, but either way I am glad they are taking this on. I, for one, am glad to be an IC. I have no interest in being classified as an employee for shopping, if for no other reason than that my taxes would be a nightmare. Having a handful of 1099s is bad enough. Can you imagine 100 W2s?
@LindaM wrote:
Actually If I had to choose from 100 1099 vs 100 W2, I would choose W2 any day. At least with the right withholdings, I wouldn’t worry about owing additional taxes... and I would feel good knowing that my income is fully counted towards social security.
@Irene_L.A. wrote:
Wondering if one has to put in so many hours to be considered employees, which leaves us out.
@Niner wrote:
"The ruling and the bill instruct businesses to use the so-called “ABC test” to figure out whether a worker is an employee. To hire an independent contractor, businesses must prove that the worker (a) is free from the company’s control, (b) is doing work that isn’t central to the company’s business, and (c) has an independent business in that industry. If they don’t meet all three of those conditions, then they have to be classified as employees."
ACL is not going to pass that second standard if this becomes law in CA.
@HonnyBrown wrote:
Someone posted a few months back that ICs in CA were now employees. This just might stick.
@walesmaven wrote:
No individual MSer is "central to their business." Also, their business is finding ICs to do their clients' work.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
K. So. As a group, the ACL shoppers are integral and central to some of the work that is performed at or by ACL. (The shoppers do not serve as the corporate attorneys, comptrollers, property cleaners, etc.) The names of the shoppers may change over time, but the work they perform remains essential and necessary because it fulfills contractual obligations. Is that sufficient to be central to at least some of the work that ACL does or for which it is responsible?
@LindaM wrote:
Some on this board might say that their own mystery shopping is a business. Me personally, I’ve never considered this a business. For something to be a business, in my own sole opinion, there has to be some ability to expand and hire staff... I’ve never met a mystery shopper with a staff on payroll!
@walesmaven wrote:
No individual MSer is "central to their business." Also, their business is finding ICs to do their clients' work.
My spouse is a tax accountant in California. I am told there are no city taxes but there are business taxes. The state is investigating gasoline prices. There is a voter-approved tax for road repair built into per-gallon price but it is wrong to say that gas prices (currently around $4 a gallon) are due to taxes. . Lack of competition and the ability of refiners to jack up prices whenever their profits dip is a big reason.@scorpionshar777 wrote:
I lived there for 15 years so I know we had local city tax, state tax, and fed tax. On top of that gas was $4.60 per gallon.
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@oteixeira wrote:
So, you signed up and agreed to be an IC, and then you accepted jobs and agreed to do them for the pay that you received (or your reimbursement), and now a lawyer has decided a group of people can go after them for back wages they were never offered or negotiated for? This is why I hate lawyers, and this to me is a totally frivolous lawsuit.
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