Module 7 of 8 in Money, for people who work for themselves

Contractor or employee?

You know whether your riskiest client relationship reads as contractor or employee under the IRS test, and what to change.

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Alex's biggest client pays him every Friday, like clocking out. They expect him logged into Slack from 9 to 5, they issued him a laptop with their editing software already installed, and he hasn't billed another client in eight months because this one fills his whole week. His contract says "independent contractor" at the top. Alex has started wondering whether the contract and the actual relationship are describing two different things.

Contract says contractor. The pattern says otherwise on two of three tests.

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