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Course 4.4 · 55 minutes

Hiring: Employees Versus Contractors, Payroll Compliance, and Hiring Your Family

Classify every worker correctly, run payroll that stays compliant, and put your children and spouse on payroll legally to cut the family tax bill.

Who it is for
Owners hiring their first worker, and parents who own a business.
Runtime
55 minutes

Pre-order: this course is still in development. Your purchase includes its materials as they are published in your portal. No release date is confirmed. Buy 5 or more and every course is 30% off.

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After payment is confirmed and your access is set up, the files listed below can be downloaded from your portal. Any unpublished materials will be added when ready, at no additional charge.

Files currently available

  • Worker Classification Decision Tree.
  • Worker Classification Questionnaire.
  • Hiring Your Kids Compliance Kit.
  • Contractor Onboarding Checklist.
  • Family Payroll Savings Calculator Guide.
  • Family Payroll Savings Calculator.
  • Slide deck.
  • Visual: Roadmap.
  • Visual: Control Test.
  • Visual: Contractor Paperwork Flow.
  • Visual: Payroll Tax Map.
  • Visual: Family Exemption Chart.
  • Visual: Standard Deduction Shelter.
  • Visual: Family Management Company.
  • Visual: Section 105 Flow.
  • Visual: Worked Example.
  • Visual: Hire Your Kids Decision Tree.
  • Visual: Child Roth Growth.
  • Workbook.
  • The narrated lesson. 55 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Added to your portal when published, at no extra cost. This purchase does not guarantee that the narrated lesson is available today.

What the course covers

  • 01Employee or contractor: the control test, the state tests, and the relief rules9 min
  • 02Contractor paperwork: the W-9, the 1099 threshold after the One Big Beautiful Bill, and backup withholding5 min
  • 03Employee paperwork and payroll taxes6 min
  • 04Hiring your children: the payroll tax exemption, the standard deduction shelter, real work, and real records10 min
  • 05The S corporation problem and the family management company answer5 min
  • 06Hiring your spouse: the medical reimbursement plan and the retirement plan6 min
  • 07Worked example: a family business pays two children and a spouse8 min
  • 08Tricks of the trade: job descriptions, timesheets, direct deposit, and the child's Roth IRA4 min
  • 09Mistakes and traps: cash wages, unreasonable pay, and misclassification penalties2 min

How it fits: Requires 4.1 and 4.3. Pairs with 4.5 and 7.4.

The standard every course holds

  • A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
  • A designed slide deck you download and keep
  • A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
  • A toolkit of checklists and protocols
  • A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol

Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.

Where this course sits

Track 4: Business Planning

This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.

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Educational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.