The Franchise Tax Board and the Employment Development Department don’t believe there is such a thing as an independent contractor. Indeed, California’s rules and regulations on independent contractors are much stricter than the IRS’s rules. So it should come as no surprise that the EDD is continuing its’ war on contractors.
The latest battle is against “temporary” doctors. According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, the EDD is challenging Staff Care Inc.’s use of independent contractor doctors.
Registry of Physician Services, another temporary doctor staffing company, also received a bill from the EDD. Oh, who is Registry’s client? The State of California (Department of Corrections).
Legislation is pending to correct this, at least for doctors. SB279, by Gil Cedillo, is pending and would make “locum tenens” doctors independent contractors by statute.