I got the Bureaucracy Blues

[Wilsons]

Right on!  The dealer pays worker comp on employees, not subcontractors for
the privilege of working.  Still, I'd get hold of a CPA or tax lawyer.

Wally

At 08:35 PM 4/12/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Huh?  Perhaps I missed something here.  Why should you be paying the dealer
>some sort of workman's comp?
>
>Z! Reinhardt RPT
>Ann Arbor  MI
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@nevada.edu>
>To: "PTG" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 5:56 PM
>Subject: I got the Bureaucracy Blues
>
>
>I got the "Bureaucracy Blues"... (hum us a few bars y'all).
>
>The ultimate oxymoron...  "Hi, I from the government... I'm here to
>help".   The dealer that we, (Alan Meyer and I), install PianoDisc
>systems for just went through an audit.  Although we are NOT employees
>but rather subcontractors, they say we should have been paying some sort
>of workers comp this past year to the dealer.  Unless we can prove
>otherwise they are going to stiff each of us with a $600.00 bill!  I
>have never heard of such a thing.  How does this work?  Are there any
>loop holes?  That is a huge amount of money that we are being asked to
>pay every year to satisfy a useless bureaucracy.  Help!
>
>I also need to find more right-offs for my taxes BAD.  I have really
>gotten burned this year by the IRS.   We could buy four big screen TVs
>each equipped with surround sound and a DVD player for what we are going
>to have to pay this year.  QUESTION:  I recall in the past that there
>was a half day seminar at the PTG in the past on how to find ways for
>techs to reduce their taxes.  Does anyone know if they are running that
>one again this year?  I think I need to be in it!
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Lost Wages, NV
>