Alright, I’ll Start: If you own a company of 100 or more employees, splinter your company. Shell company with wholly owned subsidiaries. If it’s a family business owned by you, here’s the workaround, as an example:
Owner’s company now has 99 employees. Owner’s wife’s new company has 99 emlployees. Owner’s brother’s new company has 99 employees...
And so on.
There’s also the “independent contractor” schtick where you give your former employees 1099s and say they own themselves as a company and are contracting work to you. They pay more in income taxes because they are a business owner, and they pay both halves of the employment tax, but whatever.
Any CPA’s and accountants feel free to weigh in...
We will fight this fight using legal instruments, courts, and our brains... any other ideas?
We’ll have to see if they will “look through” to subsidiaries, but that’s a good idea that might work. I’ll be discussing going on 1099 if I’m on a 100+ payroll (not sure exactly how many we have).