So I post that I am looking for some light labor work around the house, and a rightie says that

[LaydeeBug]

I had better be reporting any money I pay anyone to the IRS.

I am getting ready to respond: Rightie, I'll give a 1099 to anyone who works for me. How they file is up to them, but I know you're not trying to stick your nose in anyone's business, are you? It certainly doesn't seem that's what your party wants, unless it's in my bedroom. Then they're all about it.

What do you think?

[Kalidurga]

1. Good response.

Have you heard back yet? I bet you won't not a real one, maybe some BS bluster that will be about all. Any way for what it's worth I think Romney might want to crack down on that kind of crime of not reporting small jobs under 100 bucks. If it is a crime. I doubt the IRS would go after that, but who knows some bored agent might.

[cpamomfromtexas]

2. Has to be over $600 for services anyway.

If they are a corporation, they are expected to declare and you don't have to 1099.

Details on the $600 are below in the link.

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099msc.pdf

[Angry Dragon]

3. A 1099 is only needed if you pay them over a certain amount

[RC]

4. And they have no interest in the bedroom even,

unless you are in it. It's that 'vault' you carry around with you, that they are interested in. They want their canon fodder.

[Smilo]

5. You don't report

"You don't report - depending on the amount paid - I will provide a 1099 - whether Joe the Plumber [fill in righty name here] decides to file is up to him. Of course, given the track record that is highly doubtful."

[The Wielding Truth]

6. Ask if her candidate would report any money he paid anyone to the IRS.

If she doesn't call out his honesty it's hypocritical to call out yours.

[Frustratedlady]

7. Let us see his tax returns! He's going to squeeze through without exposure if

the public doesn't get into an uproar.

How can anyone elect a thief for president?

[FirstLight]

8. I had a 'client' who tried this BS on me

I was working wiht the local Chamber Pres, who on the surface I had known around town for many years. I helped he set up her new business website, for peanuts. I worked her events (all day events for $20, because that's "all she could spare&quot , I helped in more ways than i ever got paid because she was kind of a friend and I needed the money. She knew about my financial situation and even asked if I needed her to pay me in cash...I said no because it wasn't enough to be taxable anyway...
(she was paying me around $50 a week for maybe 2 1/2 months...so maybe $300 total...)

So finally I decided her crazy way of planning was going to be a problem, so I started to try and reign her in. Tried to nail her down on dates for posters, etc for her next event, told her I would post to her website twice a week instead of whenever she got a new sponsor and emailed me at 10pm and expected it up by the next morning...I laid down some gentle boundaries. and even put together a contract, with HOURS (so she could no longer call me at 9pm on a school night to rant about her business worries, i am not her therapist, and those should have been billable hours, lol)
She cut me off completely, no words, nasty emails saying I am a flake, took away a job I was in the middle of and had asked he for feedback on before I moved forward, and proceeded to 'do it herself' because I wasn't "there" for her...even having her daughter call me from her cell phone (on a sunday morning, no less) to ask for the website password so she could manage it herself...

So I put together an invoice for the last few hours of work. I charged her $100 total...

she ignored the first two invoices and after a month I was almost to the point of a certified letter...when she decided to run fo city council and she'd better clean up her act... she sent me a 1099 and told me I'd better fill it out or she wasn't gonna pay me. I told her she didn't pay me enough to require a 1099...but that didn't matter. eventually I caved and filled out the fucking form and got her check in the mail. It was the most "work" I'd ever had to do for a measley $100...but at least it forced me to make up a good contract for future use, and I learned a big lesson about dealing with people, even those you'd consider "friends"

[Lex]

9. Ask him when Romney is going to release his IRS records if he's so worried about

such things.