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World Wide Dictation wants a business card - Vicky

Posted: Apr 30, 2010

Has anyone else been asked by WWD to provide a business card? And specifically state on their bus. card "independent contractor"? What's up with that? Anyone hear if they are in trouble or being investigated? Hear anything about them going out of biz?

Obviously, someone has misled WWD to believe that - they could cover their fannies this way - they can

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An audit of the "appropriateness" of IC status will seek to determine the actual nature of the relationship between the parties, and most especially the degree of control that WWD exerts. If WWD determines the time, manner or place that the work will be performed (the first two being the main gotchas for MTSO's), that's the ballgame. You're an employee.

There were once "20 questions" that the IRS (and then the DOL) asked to determine status. This has been revised and now it is the "totality of the circumstances" that will be examined. Since there are few legitimate IC relationships (where the IC is truly an independent business acting as a vendor to the MTSO and having negotiation power in the formation of the contract) there are going to be A LOT OF MTSO'S GOING DOWN AND GOING DOWN HARD.

cut me off..."they CANNOT" cover their fannies - with a business card. sm

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Can you imagine anyone being so stupid as to believe "Oh - all we have to have is a business card from the EMPLOYEE stating that they are an IC".

Dear management of WWD: If you're this stupid you shouldn't be in business at all. Does it ever occur to you that IT CANNOT BE THAT EASY TO ESTABLISH LEGITIMACY OF THE IC RELATIONSHIP?

You must be brain-dead if you believe that.

Nope, that sounds odd - RubySoho

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I always just provide my EIN and no problems whatsoever. Without an EIN, I don't think a business card would be proof of anything legally.

sounds like they are anticipating being investigated. - take a pass. NM

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business card - old mt

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The company in Phoenix does that too for IC - they say they need it for their files... I can't remember the name of the company - they were quite pleasant about. But I had never heard about it either. They said they needed for the IRS.

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