peppermint
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Joined: 10/18/2005 From: Montana Status: offline
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This has been brought up before, but I don't think you thought it pertained to your situation. If you provide something for someone such as room and board you are required to put a dollar amount on those services and report that as income to the IRS. The person who is doing the cleaning and babysitting must then fill out a proper tax return and pay taxes on the fair market value of what they have received. If you do not report this as income some day the IRS can come back to you. Remember several years ago a prominant couple in WA, DC were caught because they were not reporting their live in maid's income? So, IF as you say it would be soliciting to provide cash money, and now realizing that goods and services are valued the same as cash with the IRS, you are soliciting by your own definition. So it's okay to give the lady some income so she can pay for health insurance and set aside for an IRA. It'a all the same.
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