Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections

["Elana Broitman" <ebroitman@register.com>]

Well then, are we proposing a constitiuency which will make up only a very small
percentage of internet users?  Or shall we propose a small business & individual
constitiuency? You should be aware that I am having a real hard time not jumping
all over the issue of the veracity of these numbers, as prepared by NSI.

Sincerely,

Roeland Meyer wrote:

> > From: Eric Dierker [mailto:ERIC@HI-TEK.COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:42 PM
> > To: Judith Oppenheimer
> > Cc: wg-review@dnso.org
> > Subject: Re: [wg-review] Clarifications requested from BoD, Staff, NC,
> > TC,Chair prior to co-Chair elections
> >
> >
> > I apologize for the mistake, although on further review it
> > may be a combination
> > of the 75.5% and the 14.2% or 89.9%.  I wonder about this
> > though, as most 1-4
> > employee businesses are sole proprietors, and the name would
> > be held by
> > individuals anyhow. I speculate that only about 10% of the
> > names are actually
> > in use. This is not for argument but just for clarity of
> > thought, and my
> > thought is only rough.
>
> Not true, in the US. Because of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (enacted in Jan87),
> no computer professional can operate via a sole-proprietorship. It gets much
> more complex than that, but that's the gist. When that code passed, 2.5M
> sole-properietors were put out of business (me, being one of them, Computer
> Linguistics, Huntington Beach, CA). The only way to do Hi-Tech
> contracting/consulting, in the US, is under corporate umbrella, where one is
> either a principle, or a W-2 employee.
>
> Ergo, I'd bet that a relatively small number are sole-proprietorships and a
> somewhat larger number are LLCs or sub-S corps.
>
> You may find counter-examples of this, but I'll bet their clients don't know
> what sort of IRS risks they're taking. All contracting agents (Hicks, XXCAL,
> Rennesance, Spherion, etc) require incorporation, liability insurance, etc,
> before letting out direct contracts. Otherwise, you become their W-2
> employee. There is no option for sole-proprietorships.

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