From: Canuck57@nospam.com   
      
   On 22/05/2012 8:42 AM, Alan Baggett wrote:   
   > If you regularly hire the same babysitter to look after your kids, week   
   after week, are you obligated to withhold and remit CPP contributions and EI   
   premiums?   
      
   Why would you be so dumb?   
      
   > This was the issue in a case before the Tax Court last month in which a   
   Judge had to decide whether Ms. Mikhaylovskaya, a part-time babysitter with no   
   set hours or availability, was an employee or a self-employed independent   
   contractor for Tatiana    
   Iarutina, a mother of two.   
   >   
   > Both the Ms. Iarutina and Ms. Mikhaylovskaya intended from the outset and   
   throughout the relationship that Ms. Mikhaylovskaya was to be self-employed.   
   At no time did she seek to collect EI or CPP benefits. The assessment of EI   
   and CPP by the Canada    
   Revenue Agency, along with penalties, appears to have been triggered by the   
   fact that Ms. Mikhaylovskaya reported her babysitting income on her tax return   
   as “Other Employment Income” as opposed to self-employment business income.   
      
   Why was she stupid enough to even report such income?   
      
   Just pay cash and forget the tax man.  You know, Mulroney style.   
      
   Best for the payer and paid to just go underground and forget Ottawa on   
   this one.   
      
   Just more government greed.   
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   other people pay for it.  When the credit runs out and those that pay   
   for it leave, they can all share having nothing but debt and discontentment.   
      
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