[Halgr]

I think FedEx is wrong and the IRS is correct on this issue....frankly I am surprised that it took the IRS this long to get a ruling.

Now a precident has been set for 2003-Current.

Frankly I like FedEx...its a great company but I think they have been, at the very least, “Immoral” in the way they treat their employees and attempt to avoid lawful taxes.

All employees that are classified as contractors have to pay for all benefits out of their own pockets....kinda cheesy in my opinion.

I wouldn’t treat MY EMPLOYEES that way.

[bvw]

That you used both caps and the ownership asserting "MY", in "MY EMPLOYEES" says quite a bit as to why YOU think that the choosing of and paying for what THEY need in life as a great burden or ruination to THEM to have to do for THEMSELVES. Yes, better that THEY have YOU, their master, their boss, their don, their kapo, their jeffe, their EMPLOYER to pick and pay for them. It is a thing beyond their own limited abilities for them to chose a health care plan, or life insurance, or tuition, or pension savings. Thank YOU!

Only YOU could choose the most appropriate plan for them, just as Uncle Sam is the only man who can set up a social safety net of things like the great and string Social Security, or Medicaid, or Medicare, or RRA, or Federal Pensions. Yes, mas-tuhs!

Or ....

Perhaps you might better thing of those folks with you as as ASSOCIATES, or even as partners and peers, and see that they can and SHOULD do these things for themselves as such things have NOTHING to do with your business.

[Still Thinking]

That’s only true if you pay them the same per hour as a contractor without bene’s as you would as an employee with them. If you pay them a rate that includes the bene’s, as you should, it actually vests them with more options, more power, and more choices, and less paperwork and risk for you. I think everyone in the land except mamby pamby wussy pussy Democrats should be contractors.