Determining Independent Contractor Status
Learn IRS Rules on How to Determine if a Worker is an Employee or Independent Contractor
Make legally correct determinations of worker classifications.
Understand how to document your Worker Classification Decisions.
This onsite course gives you with the tools and techniques to make legally correct determinations of worker classifications. It serves as a complete guide to safely hire and use independent contractors.
The course discusses facts and issues that indicate the existence of an independent contractor or an employer-employee relationship. We give you the guides needed to determine which facts are the most relevant under the common law standard. In addition, we give you the necessary information on how to document your classification decision and the protection you have under the law if you have made a misclassification. (CPE credits available)
Onsite and Online Independent Contractor Status Courses available.
Who Should Attend
Everyone in the company that has hiring authority.
Training Benefits
- Verify that your company is in compliance
- Prepare and streamline the required information gathered
- Recognize the issues to avoid costly mistakes
- Develop a plan to avoid the end of the year panic
- Recognize how to be “audit ready”
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
- Distinguish Independent Contractors: Benefits vs. Risks
- Determine Worker Status
- Apply Common Law Test for IC Status
- Apply Economic Reality Test
- Apply Other Tests for IC Status
- Identify Tax Implications of Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
- Recognize Safe Harbor and Good Faith Misclassification Allowance
- Discover IRS Penalties for Misclassification
- Investigate State Laws for Misclassifying Workers
- Explore Workers’ Compensation and ICs
- Testing Procedure for ICs and Workers’ Compensation
- Apply Labor, Anti-Discrimination, and Safety Laws (FLSA, CRA, and OSHA laws)
- Analyze Intellectual Property Ownership Laws
- Identify Steps for Hiring Independent Contractors
- Compare Independent Contractor Agreements
- Explain How Your Treatment of Independent Contractors is Justified
- Investigate State Tests for Unemployment Compensation
Sales and Use Tax Onsite and Online Courses
Master Sales and Use Tax Requirements: Protect Your Company from Audit Surprises
Our Sales and Use Tax training and consulting services are tailored to state and industry specific issues. Whether your company is large or small, compliance procedures for sales and use tax laws is one of the most confusing tax issues you face. In many organizations, procurement and sales processes cannot keep pace with the numerous and ever changing sales and use tax regulations, exemptions, nexus statutes, direct pay initiatives, and audit procedures that directly impact sales and use tax liabilities.
Today, many companies rely on the sales and use tax experts at Alliance Training and Consulting, Inc. to provide training and consultation to manage the process of sales and use tax compliance. Call us toll free at 877-385-5515 for information on how we can help your organization comply with sales and use tax requirements of your state and for your industry.
Below is a sample course outline of training that can be presented at your location. Before you are hit with costly penalties, get everyone from accounting, purchasing, maintenance, sales, and inventory control on track with sales and use tax compliance.
Who Should Attend
Finance, accounting, budgeting, purchasing, maintenance, inventory, sales personnel, or anyone who makes taxable purchases or sales or makes decisions on when to accrue or charge taxes.
Training Benefits
- Recognize the myriad of sales and use tax regulations
- Identify the knowledge to avoid costly mistakes
- Acquire the knowledge to stay “audit ready”
- Evaluate and streamline record keeping
- Identify the concepts and definitions unique to sales and use taxes
- Determine the differences among the states on sales and use tax issues
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
- Recognize definitions you must understand in this complicated and highly legislated area
- Determine what is taxable and what is not
- Recognize how to take advantage of tax breaks
- Determine when freight charges are taxable
- Determine when a buyer becomes an owner
- Distinguish how your responsibilities change in sales or purchases of services versus those of tangible personal property
- Recognize how the mail-order use tax affects your sales or purchases
- Identify what circumstances could increase your tax liability
- Discover easy to use tips that take the confusion out of applying for exemption certificates
- Determine how to deal with tax credits, refund opportunities and overpayments
- Determine when you are required to collect the tax from your customers
- Recognize how to handle and file claims for bad debts
- Discover situations where you will not have to pay a local sales tax
- Recognize how the multi-state compact effects your company
- Determine how to avoid getting bogged down with invoices and steamroll through sales or use tax collection duties
- Acquire the knowledge to keep your company audit-ready
- Recognize how to prepare for a judicial review
- Determine when sales tax applies and when use tax applies
- Recognize how to handle sales and use tax audits
- Discover the issues and areas where auditors uncover liability
This course is also available online:
| Understanding Sales and Use Tax Law | Online |
| Sales Tax Nexus Hot Topics | Online |
| Sales and Use Tax Bundle | Online |
(CPE credit is not available for online courses)