Contract Employee vs. Independent Contractor Are you an employee for Defense Base Act Insurance purposes but an Independent Contractor for Tax purposes? |
| The Wars Come Home The Defense Base Act Compensation Blog If your are receiving DBA benefits they are not taxable and you do not have to file paperwork on them Were you injured prior to 2006 and lost your expat status for US Taxes? Under provision IRC 662 (a) you are exempt from the time requirement of being out of the country for the full 330 days. IRS Form 2555 (Foreign Earned Income) was revised 2006 Determination of Worker Status for purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax WIthholding IRS Form SS-8 Combat Zone Pay Exclusion A-8 The combat zone military pay exclusion applies only to members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Neither federal civilian employees nor civilian defense contractors deployed with U.S. forces qualify for an exclusion of income earned while working in a combat zone or qualified hazardous duty area. They may, however, qualify for an extension of deadlines to file and pay taxes. Foreign Earned Income and Housing: Exclusion – Deduction You may be able to exclude up to $91,400 of your foreign earned income in 2009. Tax Guide for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens Abroad Employer's Tax Guide to Fringe Benefits Blackwater Dodges Taxes Tax Evasion or Fraud Combat Support Associates, CSA dodges taxes for a decade WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Pentagon announced an obscure California company had won a lucrative military contract, no one mentioned any plans for a Caribbean outpost — a tropical shell the company quickly created that allowed it to duck millions in taxes and deflect U.S. lawsuits. It's legal, at least for now. Contractors large and small have been heading offshore to shield piles of taxpayer dollars, according to an Associated Press investigation, but irate lawmakers are thundering that they'll put an end to it. Almost a decade ago, a few months after winning the deal that has totaled more than $2 billion, Combat Support Associates established its subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, a British territory and tax haven. read story here MPRI dodges taxes Shell Firms Shielded Contractor Boston Globe May 4 2008 by Farah Stockman full story here WASHINGTON - In March 2005, one of the Pentagon's most trusted contractors - Virginia-based MPRI, founded by retired senior military leaders - won a $400 million contract to train police in Iraq and other hotspots. Two months later, MPRI set up a company in Bermuda to which it subcontracted much of the work. It was not the first time that MPRI executives had used a shell company in an offshore tax haven to perform government-funded work. A year earlier, MPRI headed a joint venture that won a $1.6 billion contract to provide US peacekeeping forces in Kosovo and elsewhere. Three months later, MPRI set up a company in the Cayman Islands to do the work. Like MPRI's Bermuda subsidiary, the Cayman Islands company appears to have no phone number, website, or staff of its own there. Blackwater Dodges Taxes |