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Leasing software from company? - sc


Posted: Jan 13, 2011

Is it customary, or at least not unusual, for a company to require that you lease their software in order to work for them? 

Leasing Software - MT

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I've heard of leasing equipment, but you wouldn't be REQUIRED to lease it. You are mentioning leasing software. I would not work anywhere where I was required to pay anything for anything.

Leasing software - xMTSO

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If you are an INDEPENDENT contractor, it is your responsibility to have tools to do a job. With costs being passed down, some companies (who have to pay for licenses of the software) are passing some or all of that cost onto the contractors. So if you are an IC, then yes, this is not an outlandish requirement.

IF YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE, then no. The employer absorbs those costs.

As the IC- you write that cost off on your taxes.

As an employee, THEY write it off.

Times, they are a-changing. You can't just say you wouldn't do it, especially if you're an IC. If you are in business for yourself (and that's what IC means) you have costs to do that business.


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