>with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies!
It's not if you are in the US.
You will get a 1099 from where you worked, you write it on your 1040 and include the 1099 with your taxes if I recall from when I was an independent contractor for a while.
It takes maybe like 10 minutes extra and 1099-ing is incredibly common nowadays (unfortunately) so not a super weird case.
And it's not regulation. You don't need to worry about anything besides getting the 1099 like you would your W2s and appending it.
>with all the registration, taxation, regulation etc headache this implies!
>It's not if you are in the US.
Its also not if you are in Australia. I'd suggest that the number of developers and designers who at least occasionally take on paid side gigs or who have revenue generating side projects (even if it barely covers hosting etc) is about 1/3.
What if you get a 1099 from another state? Multiple states? Don't you need to file taxes with those states now? (Genuinely curious, I am not a CPA so I really don't know).
What if you don't have any other 1099s (so you have to pay self-employment tax just because of that one interview, at least I had once when my moving expenses were paid with a 1099).
Not even getting into possible illegal work for the candidates on work visas.
My city considers 1099s as businesses due to some shady contractors in the past. So my local government would try to collect a chunk of any contractor earnings (with that chunk getting huge if you didn't register with them first).
It's not if you are in the US.
You will get a 1099 from where you worked, you write it on your 1040 and include the 1099 with your taxes if I recall from when I was an independent contractor for a while.
It takes maybe like 10 minutes extra and 1099-ing is incredibly common nowadays (unfortunately) so not a super weird case.
And it's not regulation. You don't need to worry about anything besides getting the 1099 like you would your W2s and appending it.