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sch c owner/employee

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 15, 2020
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can a Sch C owner be employee with W2? I can find NO in pub 334, Can someone give me a link to something more authoritative, a Citation, Letter ruling, IRC ? The rule seems illogical to me

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IRonMaN

Level 15

Nope. If he or she wants to be an employee, they need to change go a corporation.

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abctax55

Level 15

No, no, no, no

Logic and the tax code don't have to go together.

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stendecAuthor

Level 3

THANKS abc, isn't this the truth ????!! no logic to tax code

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TaxGuyBill

Level 15

I'm intrigued why a person would WANT to go through all of the extra work and expense to go on payroll, when all of it is being taxed anyways.

abctax55

Level 15

1) clueless of how tax law works (thinks it will "save taxes")

2) too undisciplined to make estimated tax payments & wants to have "withholding" to solve the problem.

3) ??

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rbynaker

Level 13

It makes perfect sense to me. How can you have an employee without an employer?

George4Tacks

Level 15

You can not have an employee without an employers. As a Schedule C filer, you can be an employer. You may hire anyone you want as an employee - Friend, Child, Spouse, Candlemaker, Thief, .... Anyone, but not yourself.

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TaxGuyBill

Level 15

In answer to the actual question, an indirect answer is Revenue Ruling 69-184. That states a Partner is not an employee because he is Self Employed. Well, if that is true, then a Self Employed person is not an employee because he is Self Employed.

https://www.bradfordtaxinstitute.com/Endnotes/Rev_Rul_69-184.pdf

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stendecAuthor

Level 3

THANKS so much for reply. out of 12 replies, this is the only real citation I got

qbteachmt

Level 15

It's a Discussion.

"2 people dissed you on your reply."

No one was disrespected. Everyone put in some content on the way to figuring out why your client might feel this would be useful or why you are uncomfortable that the resources you found and have been given didn't meet your level of evaluation. We all are used to working together in this virtual environment. No one disses someone for asking for more justification. We simply try to provide it.

I happened to teach that very thing in my Payroll class. We discuss why you don't need to be in my class in the first place, because "payroll" and "employee" don't apply to a sole proprietor. No one ever asked for IRS citation, though.

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BobKamman

Level 15

Once we prove that negative, let's move on to why a narcissist can't get a marriage license and become his own spouse.

qbteachmt

Level 15

The Supreme Court has ruled that Corporations are "people, too" as a separate entity. They cannot run themselves, so they must hire Humans to do the operations. That makes the Corporation the employer and the Humans the employees. A Sole Proprietorship already is that Person, and you cannot hire yourself to be yourself; you already are yourself. You can hire others, of course, but not yourself.

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stendecAuthor

Level 3

thanks a lot for your reply and anytime you spent on this, it is not really a citation, etc I was looking for, but THANK YOU. 2 people dissed you on your reply. always several snotty people out here who criticize Every Question.

abctax55

Level 15

No one dissed anyone on this thread. And no one gave snotty answers.....

Except maybe to the non-tax pro posted that was soliciting for a tax preparer, in violation of the rules.

THAT's been deleted.

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abctax55

Level 15

This post has been deleted.

This is NOT the place to be looking for a tax preparer. Please stop with the spamming.

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qbteachmt

Level 15

This post has been deleted.

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