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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7676802" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>When you freelance to individuals, it's still a company you're hiring. They're called sole proprietorships, and can use their social security number in place of their federal ID number. It's the same exact 10-99 form being filed for either the individual freelancer or very small company being hired (in fact I fill out 10-99s all the time, and my company has 30 people). The contracts with them probably even say, "You represent yourself as your own company, understand you are obligated to carry your own workers compensation insurance, etc." or something like that. Bottom line, if a company hires someone as a freelancer, the freelancer is a company. It might not be a corporation or an LLC or partnership, but it's a sole proprietorship of some sort. They're writing expenses off against that sole proprietorship, if they are doing line item tax deductions. Which is really one of the main things we're talking about here with very small companies - the tax treatment. There isn't really even much liability protection in such small companies, as you can almost always pierce the corporate veil when you get that small. </p><p></p><p>I am curious what you think the differences is between hiring Person A, Person B, and Person C as freelancers together to work on Project X, and hiring Company D composed of just Person A, Person B, and Person C to work on Project X? I can't really think of any meaningful difference that's relevant to this discussion. There's no real "company entity" doing the work, it's all just a fiction. It's the same people, doing the exact same thing in the exact same manner under the exact same circumstances. What is the difference to you?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 7676802, member: 2525"] When you freelance to individuals, it's still a company you're hiring. They're called sole proprietorships, and can use their social security number in place of their federal ID number. It's the same exact 10-99 form being filed for either the individual freelancer or very small company being hired (in fact I fill out 10-99s all the time, and my company has 30 people). The contracts with them probably even say, "You represent yourself as your own company, understand you are obligated to carry your own workers compensation insurance, etc." or something like that. Bottom line, if a company hires someone as a freelancer, the freelancer is a company. It might not be a corporation or an LLC or partnership, but it's a sole proprietorship of some sort. They're writing expenses off against that sole proprietorship, if they are doing line item tax deductions. Which is really one of the main things we're talking about here with very small companies - the tax treatment. There isn't really even much liability protection in such small companies, as you can almost always pierce the corporate veil when you get that small. I am curious what you think the differences is between hiring Person A, Person B, and Person C as freelancers together to work on Project X, and hiring Company D composed of just Person A, Person B, and Person C to work on Project X? I can't really think of any meaningful difference that's relevant to this discussion. There's no real "company entity" doing the work, it's all just a fiction. It's the same people, doing the exact same thing in the exact same manner under the exact same circumstances. What is the difference to you? [/QUOTE]
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