Help CenterIf you have a household employee, you may need to withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes (FICA), pay federal unemployment tax (FUTA), or both.
Workers Who Are Household Employees
A household employee is an employee hired to perform work in or around your home. The worker is an employee if you can control both what and how work is done. It does not matter whether the work is full-time or part-time or that the worker was hired through an agency or association. It also does not matter whether the worker is paid on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, or by the job.
Note: If the worker usually provides his or her own work tools and offers services to the general public, he or she is an independent contractor and not a household employee.
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