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Some of us with work at home jobs are classified as independent contractors. Some of us work in our own home business. Some of us are classified as regular employees, the same as our office-based colleagues except that we get to work at home. Some of us are still searching for the perfect, legitimate work at home job opportunity.

If you're still shopping work at home job opportunities and haven't found the right work from home job yet, it is likely that when you do find it, you may asked to work from home as an independent contractor. Although there may be many advantages to working at home as an independent contractor instead of a work at home employee, most people don't fully understand what it means and are intimidated by the opportunity. People who are accustomed to their employers deducting huge chunks of their wages to pay taxes for them and then handing them a convenient W2 form at the end of the year find the whole prospect of being an independent contractor very intimidating.

It doesn't have to be the way! The whole purpose of this information is to help you understand the generalities related to the various legal classifications you may face as you search for legitimate work at home jobs. Please consult a competent tax and/or accounting professional to advise you on how the various classifications may affect your individual situation.

People with work at home jobs enjoy being far less supervised and far less controlled than our office-rooted counterparts, for most of us, at least. Most of us with work at home jobs set our own schedules to some extent, and have the freedom to fit in other important facets of our lives, such as the needs of our children, spouses, and other loved ones. People with work at home jobs often find life to be far more balanced and more satisfying. These are all good things.

As a general rule, people who work at home in their own home business and/or as an independent contractor, have the most freedom. Employees who work at home are often subject to more control by their employers, sometimes even extreme control, even though they work at home.

Those of us whose work at home jobs are classified as independent contractor opportunities are usually responsible for paying our own taxes. Our employer(s) will usually issue us a 1099 at the end of the year showing us, and the IRS, how much income we earned as a result of our work at home jobs during the past tax year.

Another big difference is that work at home independent contractors usually do not qualify for the same company benefits that employees receive.

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