Re: internet business - legal and tax questions

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Robinson  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Since you're not working for wages the rules against employment don't apply.
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This isn't true in the case of the Immigration & Nationality Act. For
instance, without work permission you can't volunteer to do a job for
no wages at all if it would normally be a paid job. Self-employment,
even if you don't draw wages, is equally iffy. The intuitive metric to
use is that of if you could be displacing a paid American worker, not
if you're technically employed or not.

It doesn't help that you really have to check the law and precedent to
figure this sort of thing out, because half the advice you get from
BCIS personnel is wrong.

-- Mark