What is a “statutory employee”?
A. ‘Statutory employee’ is a status distinguished from ‘self-employed’– both of which are assignments made within the context of “income” recipients. That is to say, the IRS distinguishes “income” earners (“service” performers) into two groups: Those considered to be working for someone else (statutory employees) and those who work for themselves (self-employed). To be categorized as a “statutory employee” does not mean that you had not been being thought of as a federal worker but now are– it just means that the system has decided that you fall under one “income”-earner-federal-revenue-protocol rather than another. By the way, this is a good place to point out that there are two different definitions of “employee” to be found in Subtitle C — one for the general withholding protocols found in chapter 24, and another associated with the ‘FICA’ (Social Security and Medicare) structure. These terms are quite distinct from each other, due to the fact that the “wages” defined in each of
A. ‘Statutory employee’ is a status distinguished from ‘self-employed’– both of which are assignments made within the context of “income” recipients. That is to say, the IRS distinguishes “income” earners (“service” performers) into two groups: Those considered to be working for someone else (statutory employees) and those who work for themselves (self-employed). To be categorized as a “statutory employee” does not mean that you had not been being thought of as a federal worker but now are– it just means that the system has decided that you fall under one “income”-earner-federal-revenue-protocol rather than another. By the way, this is a good place to point out that there are two different definitions of “employee” to be found in Subtitle C — one for the general withholding protocols found in chapter 24, and another associated with the ‘FICA’ (Social Security and Medicare) structure. These terms are quite distinct from each other, due to the fact that the “wages” defined in each of
