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A number of newspapers and
periodicals have featured stories by or about Legally Nanny®. Here
are excerpts from just a few of the articles referencing our
company and services:
The Wall Street
Journal
But avoiding
the nanny tax is a short-sighted mistake. Even if you don't aspire
to political office . . . skirting the law prevents you from taking
helpful child-care tax deductions. It also poses a real risk of
consequences from an Internal Revenue Service audit or future claims
by your nanny.
ABC News
According to Bob
King, lawyer and founder of Legally Nanny . . . confidentiality
agreements are crucial.
"I have had a number of individuals, some celebrities, who have
had nannies try to blackmail them," King said. "They've accessed
personal computers at home, or overheard business transactions, or
seen a spreadsheet left out on a table."
"With celebrities, I will have additional clauses in my
agreements that say not only does everything done in the home stay
in the home, but you can't talk with other employees about
confidential info you may have learned," he added. "You can't say,
'Oh, so-and-so just signed a big movie deal,' or 'So-and-so are
getting a divorce.'"
CNN/Parenthood.com
So
here's the part you were afraid of when you first thought about
hiring a nanny: paying employment taxes. The bad news is that it's
not optional. The good news is there are legal and tax advantages to
paying your nanny legally that can offset much of the added
cost.
The bottom line is that if you maximize your tax savings, paying
legally can amount to as little as 5 percent more than paying your
nanny under the table, and you avoid the potentially devastating
charges, penalties and other costs of tax fraud.
The Street.com
Robert King, a
labor and employment attorney and founder of Legally
Nanny, says that . . . families who
employ nannies often involve them in the more intimate parts of
their lives. Sometimes a nanny is privy to or overhears information
that the family wants to keep private. Also, many company executives
take important work documents home with them, and they don’t want to
worry about who sees them. The same goes for business related phone
calls and emails. For these reasons, experts agree that regular
people, not just celebrities or NYSE CEOs, should have an employee
contract and a confidentiality agreement with their
nanny.
A confidentiality agreement can also
prevent a nanny from discussing their work online on social
networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. “It protects
your mail, email, and phone conversations,” says King. “Think about
the conversations you have in your house. Would you want everything
that goes on in your home broadcast?”
And while it is
acceptable to draw up your own document, King says, “you get what
you pay for. If you write it yourself, you don’t know what you don’t
know.” . . . Overall, King says, it should take no more than three
hours to complete the process. “It takes only a few hours of your
time to protect your most personal belongings.” That would be your
family's peace of mind.
Kiplinger's Personal
Finance
But what if
you've been operating under the radar (and outside of the law) for
some time -- paying a nanny or other household worker in cash and
ignoring the tax rules? What should you do now? "My advice is to
come clean," says California labor attorney Robert King, who runs
Legally Nanny, in Irvine, Cal. . . . King says that household
employers get nailed when a former employee applies for
unemployment, disability or social security benefits. If you're
snared, you're on the hook for back taxes -- your share and the
employee's -- plus interest and penalties.
The Los Angeles Daily
Journal
"I think it [Legally Nanny]
is an innovative idea . . . My sense is that this will be a viable
business because people who are hiring home help probably want to
comply with the law but may not know how. The Employment Development
Department is taking a much stricter view these days, there is a
danger," said Jim McDonald, a veteran employment attorney who is the
vice president and general counsel for the Irvine Chamber of
Commerce.
"Oh, if somewhere along the
line you screw up and get caught, it will come back to bite you,"
said Gary Tang, a spokesman for the criminal investigation branch of
the IRS field office in Los Angeles said. "And we can take a big
chunk out of you."
"My service is designed to prevent that
kind of debacle," Bob King said. "This is a very complicated,
cross-disciplinary field, tax and law. One shouldn't try to just
wing it."
Parenting
Magazine
What to do before you
hire: Write up a thorough job description. This is
important, whether you're looking for a full-time caregiver or a
neighborhood teenager to play with your child for a few hours in the
afternoon. You can then ask each candidate if she can do the tasks
on the list with or without assistance (such as needing a back brace
to lift your toddler, for instance) says Bob King, an employment
attorney and owner of Legally Nanny, an Irvine, California, firm
that gives advice to household employers.
USA Today
Families
bypass the nanny tax for many reasons. Some are already struggling
to pay for child care and can't afford it. Others employ
undocumented workers. And some don't understand the rules, or think
the tax is too complicated or burdensome, says Robert King, co-owner
of Legally Nanny, an Irvine, Calif.-based company that helps people
pay nanny taxes.
But this much is clear, King says: If the IRS audits your return
and finds you have an off-the-books nanny, you'll owe back taxes and
interest — along with penalties for tax evasion and fraud.
Los Angeles Lawyer
Magazine
Hiring a nanny
legally requires close consideration of several employment law, tax,
and insurance issues. The process may appear daunting at first, but
the resolution of the issues ultimately is not as complicated as
many fear and yields benefits for employers and
employees.
KABC Channel 7 News Los
Angeles
But
not everyone is sold on the value of these nanny-spying Web sites.
In fact, some experts in the field of child care say that if you
feel the need to rely on those Web sites, then you may not have
taken all the appropriate safeguards when it came to hiring your
nanny in the first place. . . . Attorney Bob King runs
Legally Nanny, advising parents, nannies and related
agencies. He says the safest route to a good nanny is to hire
one through a reputable agency. Nanny-watching sites may provide
some degree of comfort for parents, but King says constant spying
may be a symptom of a bad nanny-family relationship. "To me, you
have to establish that basic level of trust," says
King.
California Lawyer
Magazine
Perhaps the most
common fallacy about employing a worker legally is that it will
greatly increase your expenses. But a look at the additional
costs, especially in light of the potential tax savings, reveals the
inaccuracy of that contention.
New York Daily
News
Besides costing him a
cabinet post and sparking questions about his business and sex
lives, Bernie Kerik's illegal nanny confession is going to slam his
pocketbook. . . . "If someone publicly admits they haven't
paid taxes for their nanny, the IRS is just not going to let that
go," said Bob King, a California lawyer who specializes in
nanny law. . . . "Plus, you need a lawyer and accountant to
figure out this mess, and those sorts of professional fees are
extraordinarily expensive."
Irvine World News
For one flat fee . . . Legally Nanny provides
the legal and tax services needed. The company also provides you
with an employment agreement to confirm the terms of your nanny's
employment and protect your rights in a legally enforceable
document.
These
testimonials and endorsements do not constitute a guarantee,
warranty or prediction about your legal matter's
outcome. The results portrayed above were dependent on
each case's facts and results will differ if
based on different facts.
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