Nanny and Domestic Worker Rights In a report prepared for the U.N. Human Rights Committee entitled, “Domestic Workers’ Rights in the United States,” violations against domestic workers are noted. The report states, “Employed in private homes to perform household tasks that historically have been assigned a diminished value, domestic workers frequently face exploitation and abuse, […]
Being Paid Legally is Your Right
March 3, 2009 11 Comments
What Nannies Should Do if they Did Not Receive Tax Forms. The term “nanny tax” is really an umbrella for several different taxes: Social Security and Medicare taxes and the federal unemployment tax. State unemployment tax and perhaps state disability tax may be owed as well. A nanny is an employee if the parents can […]
The Nanny Tax Nightmare
February 8, 2009 15 Comments
Newsweek Article:The Nanny Tax Nightmare The perils of trying to comply with our Byzantine payroll laws—and how Washington can make the system easier for parents who want to do the right thing. By Maja BeckstromNewsweek Web Exclusive It’s a good thing I haven’t been tapped for public office. As I discovered last year, it’s frighteningly […]
Performance Czar Killefer Withdraws Candidacy
February 3, 2009 4 Comments
Nanny Tax in the News AgainBy Laura Meckler, Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123367405418643627.html?mod=googlenews_wsjNancy Killefer, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the federal government’s first chief performance officer, is withdrawing from the post, the White House said Tuesday. Ms. Killefer is the third Obama nominee to confront tax problems. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed despite […]
NANNYGATE DISCUSSED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
January 24, 2009 8 Comments
Our friends in the nanny industry are quoted in the The New York Times. Here is the link to the article below.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/your-money/taxes/24money.html?_r=1&ref=businessDoing the Right Thing by Paying the Nanny TaxBy RON LIEBER The nanny tax issue simply won’t go away. Ever since Zoë Baird, President Bill Clinton’s first nominee for attorney general, withdrew her name […]
CAROLINE KENNEDY NANNYGATE PROBLEMS
January 23, 2009 6 Comments
The New York Post, The New York Times, Associated Press, and Daily News are reporting that Caroline Kennedy dropped her bid for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s old Senate seat because she had tax problems involving a household employee. Could it be true that the same day that one nominee for a position on Obama’s cabinet is […]
NANNYGATE IGNORED
January 22, 2009 4 Comments
Timothy Geithner ApprovedLast week we discussed Timothy Geithner was nominated as Treasury Secretary and that he might lose that nomination for not paying taxes of a former housekeeper. http://bestnannynewsletter.blogspot.com/2009/01/paying-nannies-and-housekeepers-on.html Geithner was approved as the nomination today in the Senate according to the Star Tribune.http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/congress/38141734.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhU6:_0c:QyDiiUiacyKUU By MARTIN CRUTSINGER , Associated Press “The Senate Finance Committee on […]
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