1099 employee are commonly referred to as independent contractors, which comes with the tax responsibility of paying both income tax and self-employment tax on net income from self-employment earnings. Income tax is dependent on your prevailing tax rate from all sources of income. Self-employment tax, which is FICA and Medicare for the self employed is taxed at 15.3%,
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