{"id":839,"date":"2013-03-14T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2013-03-14T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T14:42:35","slug":"the-heat-is-on-contract-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"The Heat is on Contract Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-840\" alt=\"3guyswalk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324392804578358473085106876.html?mod=dist_smartbrief\">The Wall Street Journal reports th<\/a>at the IRS and the Department of Labor (DOL) are increasing the pressure on employers to properly classify their workers through payroll audits. \u00a0A goal has been set to\u00a0investigate\u00a06,000 employers. The authors write:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Treasury estimates that forcing employers to properly classify their workers\u2014while tightening so-called &#8220;safe harbor&#8221; rules that provide them with leeway in determining who is and isn&#8217;t an employee\u2014would yield $8.71 billion in added tax revenue over the next decade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal reports that the IRS and the Department of Labor (DOL) are increasing the pressure on employers to properly classify their workers through payroll audits. \u00a0A goal has been set to\u00a0investigate\u00a06,000 employers. The authors write: The U.S. Treasury estimates that forcing employers to properly classify their workers\u2014while tightening so-called &#8220;safe harbor&#8221; rules &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Heat is on Contract Labor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,65,63,399,59],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-resources","tag-department-of-labor","tag-dol","tag-employee-benefits","tag-federal-income-tax","tag-payroll-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}