<div>Furthermore, if she has no income you can claim her as a deduction.  I think that would garner more than $400 in savings at tax time.  I think I'll leave things as they are.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Sivak<BR><BR><B><I>BobDavis88@aol.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/29/2006 7:04:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time, deanmay@pianorebuilders.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Going from a one man operation to having an employee adds a huge amount of paper work, withholding forms, etc. with associated penalties if you don’t get everything just right. DAMHIK. That’s a lot of work and risk for $400.</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">It sure is, and in addition, if you are going to conform to the law, you are subject to Workers' Comp insurance, must post all sorts of advisories on your wall, have (and document!!) safety meetings for OSHA, and file more quarterly reports (as Dean said). It definitely isn't worth it, and we no longer have employees because of it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">My wife works full-time as a rebuilder. We have set up as a partnership, which requires almost no extra paperwork. I does not shelter us from liability like a corporation does, though, so we have to keep our fingers crossed that no one will sue us. Sigh.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style"><BR>Bob Davis</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>