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Stay on Target With Hired Guns

By Nina Kaufman, Esq.

The following 5 tips will help you avoid complications when hiring contractors. You want to grow your business, but the thought of taking on employees–dealing with salaries, payroll taxes and personality issues–scares you more than the latest Friday the 13th movie. Happily, there’s a way to expand your company’s capabilities without bloating it with staff: Hire contractors. Call them what you will: independent contractors, freelancers or outsourced staff. It all amounts to the same thing: Your work gets done without swelling your overhead. But there’s a fine line between employees and freelancers. To avoid complications with contractors, follow these five tips: Make sure your personnel are not employees in contractor clothing. The IRS carefully scrutinizes the use of independent freelancers, partly because companies have used them as a subterfuge to avoid paying employment taxes (You can bet the IRS wants you to pay as much in taxes as possible). The IRS will look to the degree of control you have over the worker. Do you dictate how, when and where the work will be done and…

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Nina Kaufman

Flying solo doesn’t have to mean going it alone.

I’m Nina Kaufman.

I know first-hand that running a knowledge-based service business has unique challenges. It’s so much easier when you have an advocate in your corner. Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with thousands of New York business professionals who want a legal advisor to guide and support them as they navigate the business world.

With wide-ranging experience as a business attorney, strategist, and media authority, I bring the added power of a business lens to the legal issues my clients are facing.

And because I’ve been a business owner myself, I’ve lived through the soaring highs and devastating lows – like when my first law firm failed. So I understand what’s involved to serve great clients, detect business risks early and build a true legacy.

I can’t get those 12 years back. That’s why I have made it my mission to ensure that business professionals like you can become wise and discerning leaders, build a solid business, and live your best life.