Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcnc!unc!rentsch From: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.edu Subject: Re: Sorry - Independent contractors and the law Message-ID: <488@unc.unc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 01:21:24 EST Article-I.D.: unc.488 Posted: Thu Jan 1 01:21:24 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:01:17 EST References: <2352@mtuxo.UUCP> Reply-To: rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) Organization: CS Dept, U. of N. Carolina, Chapel Hill Lines: 23 Xref: mnetor misc.legal:502 comp.edu:25 A couple of quick thoughts on the recent tax legislation requiring engineering and programming consultants to be considered "employees" for tax purposes: (1) Many university faculty consult "on the side", including those in Computer Science. Won't they be caught in the non-tax-exempt box along with the rest of the consultants? What effect will this have on Ph.D.'s considering a career in academic Computer Science? (2) I read recently (where? I can't remember) that Grace Murray Hopper was hired as a high-level consultant at DEC. Being a software type (well.... at least a "similar line of work"), doesn't that mean that Admiral Hopper can not be a consultant but must be an ordinary employee (at least for tax purposes)? cheers, Tim [ Note: starting 1 hour 20 minutes ago, Eastern Standard Time, engineering and programming consultants no longer exist. Please change the text of this message appropriately. :-) ]