Thoughts on 1099 Independent Contractor

How can you work under a licensee yet still claim to meet the IRS rules for independent contractors??ÿ

As I understand the IRS process, they look at certain criteria but base their decision on the overall situation.?ÿ Failure of one test in one instance doesn't necessarily determine the outcome.

The goal of the IRS is to ensure that appropriate taxes are paid.?ÿ The proprietor of a demonstrably legitimate business can perform work that involves taking detailed direction from his client without being an employee.

I've never had an independent contractor relationship investigated by the IRS, but I did once get challenged by my workers comp carrier.?ÿ I had engaged a subcontractor -- a retired NGS state advisor -- to help me run a large GPS campaign.?ÿ He was nominally working under my direction -- though all significant decisions were actually collaborative -- but I was able to show that he had other clients and sources of income.?ÿ The auditor eventually agreed that he wasn't an employee and withdrew the challenge.

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I am not saying that you can have a contract people working full time for months or years at at time.

Contract help is for a few days a week now and then or even a day or so every week all year long ot help you here and there to keep up.

People that work full time all year long are employees.

Contract field crews are a pipe dream of many experienced hands that will no longer work for ordinary pay and the greedy ones I know want as much or more than I get at the end of a project.

I know of many that want this status and they may be out surveying under some umbrella surveyor today and every day.

The ones I've met only want to turn over final data and not any raw data of any kind and that don't "get r done" for me or any BOR that I know of.

Most of the ones I've herd of keep busy in the oil fields when that is up and running.

There is a guy that I call on to help me a couple days out of a year when some client wants something referenced to some certain GPS system that I don't mess with.

Okay, your thoughts....I am a licensed Surveyor (in the States offered) with my own equipment and CAD software. Need help getting a project completed? Hire me and I will give you all the field data reduced into a C3D drawing, raw data, field notes etc.?ÿ Would that be illegal?