What is the best legal structure for a 3-person group. LLC? S-Corp? C-
Corp? We are going to provide technical services.

Mook

My wife has an LLC through which she does some marketing consulting. I
recently got a contract to do some technical consulting and used her
LLC to contract with the company I will be working for.

My question is: what's the best way to have my wife's LLC pay me?
Should I be a W2 employee? Should I be a 1099 employee? Should I be a
partner?

Keep in mind I have a very large federal and state tax debt. I don't
want my tax debts to affect her or her LLC.

Mook

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I normally freelance with several different clients at once where I'm
considered a "vendor" so I have to pay all my own taxes, benefits, etc
and can deduct pretty much anything you legally can. A new client has me
as a W2 so they're taking out all the taxes but I don't get benefits of
course. How will this affect what I can deduct?

I read I cannot deduct mileage though I don't see that on the IRS site.
According to Pub 463, as long as it's not a "regular place of work",
they would not be considered commuting expenses and I should be OK.
Since I'm only there when I need to be and can be at other clients as
needed, I'd consider them all to be "temporary work locations".

Is there anything else I should be concerned about or be aware of? I
bought a couple used laptops for this job to handle VS 2008 development
so I would plan to deduct the cost of those as well.

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