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Originally Posted by GarthB
The IRS has told us that has very little to do with the determination as to whether or not an employee/employer relationship exists. Many manufacturer reps who are independent contractors get their checks from one source and it does not infer such a relationship.
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Garth, thank you for your input. The Internal Revenue Service has consistently defined single source income as one of the delimiters for self-employment.
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Due to a lawsuit against the local basketball association, we conferred with the IRS about our status. We will be making a fewchanges, including having all umpires sign an independent contractor agreement,
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I find it hard to believe the IRS granted your organization umpires independent contractor status when you did not have the simplest of compliances - the IC Agreement.
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....disavowing any prohibition against working for other associations or directly for leagues and not providing any benefits to the contractors other than available work for a mutually agreed upon compensation. We've been told by the IRS and and our tax attorney that we're good to go.
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Great luck for you and your organization. !