Re: Exempt status for Tech Writers

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

If you are a "sole proprietor" working 1099, billing
clients through their AP and paying self-employment
taxes you are neither exempt nor non-exempt because
under labor law you are a business, not an employee.

If you incorporate, list yourself as an employee of your
corporation, pay SS, state disability, unemployment,
payroll taxes, etc. on yourself and issue yourself a
W2 every year listing your corporation as the
employer, then you are an employee and exempt
or non-exempt employment comes into play, and it
won't matter how many clients you assign yourself
to do work for (although, in your case, based on
your email address and website, my guess is that
you would be classified as "management," which
would automatically make you exempt).

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
 > I think the exempt or non exempt argument also depends a lot on if 
you have
> more than one client. 

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