@ dulan39 wrote:
We are a plumbing business and used a staffing agency to hire our workers for the majority of the year. Basically we paid the agency a premium for their hourly wages.
I still don't understand "whose" employees they were; i.e., who is legally their employer, pays their wages, provides them their W-2, withholds their taxes, FICA, etc. Do you do all that? Was the "premium" you paid like a finder's fee or commission, but you are the actual employer of record that pays their wages, employment taxes, provides their W-2s, etc.? And are you asking how/where to report that "premium expense" that you paid to the agency that provided them? Or are the workers "contract labor" and the agency considered the employer?
I'm a fellow user and not a tax person, so I won't give any tax advice. You'll have to wait and see if any tax person will see this thread and assist you. Or we can tell you how to phone TurboTax Support.
In any case, there's something that needs to be clarified first that may help anyone who assists you here. You said "we are a plumbing business." What does the "we" mean? What kind of business entity; i.e, how is your business organized? Are you a self-employed business/sole proprietor, a single-member LLC, multi-member LLC, partnership, etc. Or is "we" a joint venture or LLC of husband and wife?
You appear to be using Self-Employed Edition which is for a self-employed business, independent contractors, and sole proprietors, and can be used by a single-member LLC in some situations. Multi-member LLC, partnerships, corporations, etc. require a different product.
Or is the "we" the 2 members of a married husband-wife and if so, is it in a community property state?
