#Freelancetips
🔵 Freelancers, gig workers, consultants and independent contractors are all considered 1099 employees although they are not employees at all. Their accurate term is actually self-employed workers or non-payroll workers.
Unlike employees, self-employed workers are responsible for reporting their own income and paying their own self-employment taxes, which cover Social Security and Medicare. They are not defined as employees legally, therefore the term 1099 employees is quite problematic.
🔵 Simply put, a 1099 employee is a non-payroll worker. They might be self-employed or they may own a business, but they are not an employee of your business. Usually, if you offer a worker a long-term contract, an open-ended role with your company, and they have a job description that they need to keep to, they are not a 1099 employee.
🔵 On the other hand, if they have a short-term role or project to do with your business, and they have control over how they complete that work, they are likely to be a 1099 employee.
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