[TriLUG] [TriEmbed] In Need of Job Advice

[Roger via TriLUG]

Income taxes are on earned *income.* $zero It's no income . X% of zilch is zilch.
--
Roger Broseus

(Please excuse tiepos induzed by the droided predictive text tool.)

On October 23, 2016 5:23:52 PM EDT, William Sutton via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>Also...Understand that any work they do eventually pay you for, you
>have 
>to remit state and federal income tax and FICA tax.  I have no idea 
>whether you owe that even if you haven't been paid.  For that you
>probably 
>need the services of a good tax specialist.
>
>William Sutton
>
>On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Tadd Torborg via TriLUG wrote:
>
>> At this point you should sit down and record all that you know about
>the situation.  If you submitted any on-line forms or emails listing
>hours or whatever, try to recover that and get it onto a computer you
>control.  Dig up any correspondence that mentions dates so you know
>exactly when you started.  If you can get actual hours in a document,
>that’s great.  If not, then summarize the weeks   This is for your
>benefit, later maybe need to refer to it, depending on how long you go
>before this is all settled.  Keep track of your hours going forward as
>well. 
>>
>> Make sure you separate your work for them and your own materials.  If
>you regularly bring your home laptop to work, stop doing that.  Get
>another if you must supply your own.  If things go legal, things get
>rude with regards to machines which have “work” on them.   They may be
>able to subpoena your laptop.  If you bring it into the office, they
>may be able to grab it without subpoenaing it.   Lawyers suck, unless
>they are on your side of course. 
>>
>> My take is that you should not do any more business with them on the
>telephone or email.  But be careful if you do more work for them.  
>Assume they are hostile once you start picking on them about this.  
>Try not to escalate this to the point they bring in lawyers but point
>out that you have expenses and don’t have the resources to continue
>spending money. 
>>
>> Tadd Torborg 
>> tadd at mac.com
>>
>>
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