Employment Solicitors

Employment solicitors can be of great help in employment related issues, such as:

Employer-employee conflict Recruitment policy formulation

Employment law covers all areas of an employer-employee relationship, with the exception of the negotiation process mentioned in the labour law. Therefore, employment lawyers can assist both the opposing parties in conflicts relating to:

Employee discrimination Unfair termination of employment Worker’s compensation Harassment Wages and work condition claims Redundancy Workplace injury Read the rest of this entry »

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The Self-Employment Tax for the Newly Self-Employed

The Self-Employment tax isn’t actually a new tax you have to pay once you start your own business, it’s a continuation of the Social Security and Medicare taxes that you paid as an employee, but with a variation.

Employees have their social security and medicare taxes withheld from their paychecks as the FICA withholdings, (Federal Insurance Contributions Act).   You, as a self-employed person, have to pay these taxes yourself at tax time.  (Also note that tax time comes up four times a year through estimated tax payments for the self-employed.)

It is crucial for you to remember that the self-employment tax is altogether separate from your federal income tax.  

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