Self Employed Tutor Contract

If you're actively running your own tutoring business, and not working for an agency or other employer, you're self-employed. That's true even if you have a full-time day job. In the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, being self-employed classifies you as a 1099 independent contractor.

Like all hard-working Americans, tutors aren't exempt from filing their taxes. Unlike most working Americans, however, freelance tutors are part of the 10 percent who are self-employed. That means you're your own boss and your own accountant (unless, of course, you outsource that to a tax professional).

Tutoring fees are included with other medical expenses (such as vision care, prescriptions, orthodontics, etc.) to reduce the amount of federal and provincial taxes payable. To claim tutoring fees you need receipts and a written letter from a medical practitioner to certify that the service is required.

The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done. The earnings of a person who is working as an independent contractor are subject to Self-Employment Tax.

Fees/Payment Policies. Here you can discuss the what, when, and how for payment. Student/Parent Expectations. Tutor Expectations. Communication.

Most clubs currently classify their coaches as independent contractors and do not pay employment taxes on payments to coaches.The IRS found the coaches were actually employees, primarily because the club provided the coaches' equipment.

If you are a tutor but working through a company, you're most likely an employee.If that's the case, you're a contractor, working on a per contract basis, through an agency or company and considered self-employed. If you are working directly with students and they're paying you directly, you're self-employed.