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To: carranza2 who wrote (289014)	1/24/2009 1:41:14 PM
From: Sr K	Respond to of 794273

The NYT article I linked to in my last reply made these points: ... it leaves a little pit in the stomach of hundreds of thousands of people who are breaking the law themselves. Various estimates put the tax cheat rate at 80 to 95 percent of people who employ baby sitters, housekeepers and home health aides. In 1997, taxpayers filed 310,367 household employee tax payment forms with the Internal Revenue Service. By 2006, the latest year for which data are available, the number was down to 225,441. If the "tax cheat rate [is] 80 to 95 percent" maybe the laws are the problem. If "[a] company called NannyPay offers software for do-it-yourselfers for $97.95 a year", then maybe Intuit could make it all available with TurboTax. They do offer Payroll services, so technically, they could do it. If the IRS would communicate with the State Unemployment offices (see #5 in that article) and the Workers' Comp divisions (see #6), the IRS could offer free online filing. It should be easier, and not take 12 hours a year to do. BTW the threshold for withholding and paying Social Security and Medicare taxes is "if you pay $1,700 or more in 2009 to a household employee" (per #3 in that article).