Coders vs. Employees

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For both tax and legal reasons, it’s very dangerous to equate coders with employees. The process of hiring both is somewhat similar, but the process of working with either is vastly different. According to the IRS, an employee can be a common law worker, statutory worker, or statutory non-employee worker. Contractors are none of those types of workers and that’s why tax issues aren’t a concern at RentACoder. Take a quick look at the differences between RentACoder’s contractors and typical employees:

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