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Do you get paid on a 1099 (contractor) or a W-2 (employee)?
When we had people working for us (Fl) that seemed to be the tax man's test. We guessed wrong on some and paid something like double of what we owed plus an administrative fee, as a first time offender. It was really going to be expensive if we did it again.