I’ve written several blog posts answering questions from Classical Conversations (CC) Directors regarding: Taxes for CC Directors and tutors Using church space Paying tutors as Independent Contractors or employees and more Usually these issues affect CC Directors the most since…
Greetings, I’ve started a Classical Conversations Community in Washington state. To be able to host my community at my church, we were asked that we create a non-profit organization so I did. I created a separate non-profit banking account from…
A homeschool leader asks if the way her group pays volunteer teacher is legal. Holly, a homeschool group leader emailed HomeschoolCPA Carol Topp this situation: “I need guidance on the method with which our organization’s volunteers are paid teacher fees.…
We board members just want to clarify something about issuing the 1099 to our five paid teachers. Do we need to wait until we have our 501(3)(c) status before we issue them? In your book Paying Workers in a Homeschool…
Carol Topp starts a new feature on her Homeschool Leader podcast: Q&A with HomeschoolCPA. In this first Q&A session, she is asked by a Classical Conversations® Director of she needs to give Classical Conversations® Corporation a 1099-MISC for the licensing…
Happy New Year! In the new and out with the old. But wait! Not so fast! There are several tasks a nonprofit homeschool group needs to do to finish out the prior year before forging ahead. 1. Wage Form W-2…
California’s new law (AB5) puts into affect the 2018 ruling by the California Supreme Court in the Dynamex case that makes it more difficult to treat workers as Independent Contractors. The new law uses an ABC test introduced in the…
Lots of homeschool groups hire and pay teachers to conduct classes. Sometimes these teachers are homeschool parents, but sometimes they are professional instructors. Homeschool leaders have a lot of questions about paying teachers and other workers. Topics in this episode…
Should your homeschool program pay teachers? Jamie Buckland, a homeschool leader from West Virginia started Appalachia Classical Academy and pays her teachers as employees. How and why would she do that? This podcast (19 minutes) will give you something…