Home owner found all subs himself and this architect monitored the quality of their work, inspections, permits, soil tests, septic tests and such. I hope to find his charges tomorrow but in the meantime, I wanted to get people's comments on using the Architect as a substitute for general contractor.
Author: Alice Gilman. An employer may exclude $13,190 (in 2014) in qualified expenses from an employee's income for each effort to adopt a child. Employer-provided adoption assistance is excluded from federal income tax withholding only; FICA and FUTA still apply.
The IRS does not allow a household employer to classify a domestic worker as an independent contractor when the employer sets the hours and duties. The nanny tax can be legally avoided by hiring someone through an agency that carries the nanny or employee on its books as an employee. Parents that hire babysitters for their children are also required to pay the nanny tax if they exceed the $2,000 wage threshold for any one sitter. Employers of household workers can offer benefits such as parking, public transportation, college tuition and health insurance as non-taxable compensation.