Important Things That We Need To Known about Independent Contractor

Independent contracting is a standard business practice, and many people and businesses are taking advantage of the same. Now days, it is trendy and most popular in all around the world. A small business or start-up or government office engage independent contractor to do his work.

Independent contractor is also stated as self - employed. But there is critical point to hire an independent contractor is contractor agreement. It is the back bone of the relationship between independent contractor and business. In it, the entire clause of fee like monthly, hourly, weekly is specified. In agreement, form of commission was also including which help later to negotiate with client if he is not pay.

Independent contractor are not actually employee but they receive their payment according to the business work.

Independent contractor are not placed as employee payroll, so they need to give entire invoice to the client he performed work and his engage client pay him through account payable.

There are special tax rules for independent contractors:

a) Tax file number: Unique number issued by ATO (Australian Taxation Office)

b) Australian Business Number helps to run business

c) Good and service Tax

d) Personal Services income.

e) Payroll Tax

The idea to engage independent contractor to do outsourced work is cost & time effective. Independent contractor work in various industries, like broker, manufacture, consumer product and many more but they only focus on work and have no time to manage their finance. For this Certica, offer service to manage your finance and the payment you received. And his certified contractor administration system provide compliance with ATO and other taxation service to make your contractor ready