Word: paperwork
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...hell. The requirement that immigrants have U.S. working papers is just part of the problem. The real burden for people hiring anyone, from nannies and baby-sitters to once-a-week household help, for more than $50 in a three-month period is the taxes and the blizzard of paperwork that also come through the door. So stringent are the legal requirements that the Internal Revenue Service estimates that no more than one-quarter of American families with household help bother to obey the law -- and that assessment is probably generous...
Paying the taxes is only part of the hassle. Conscientious families must fill out five federal forms a year on behalf of each worker. State and local filings can add to the burden. Overwhelmed families may seek help from accountants, who will gladly handle the paperwork for about $500 a year for a child-care worker. But even professionals can find the task grueling. Says Donald Rocen, a tax manager in the Washington office of accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand: "I wanted to do the right thing, and when I hired a cleaning person for $50 a day once every...
...That my paperwork had already left the Adams House office for New Haven, Ann Arbor and points westward and southward rendered that option moot, but I wouldn't have called anyway...
...case, managed competition may not be superior, at least from the doctors' point of view. The administrative costs of a Canadian-style single-payer system will likely be lower than those in a managed-competition system with a redundancy of providers, computer systems and paperwork. A recent study in Health Daily suggests that a single-payer system would reduce physicians' administrative costs by 26 percent and hospitals...
...would hope the decision to be made before the Christmas break," Hoy said. "But I wouldn't expect it to be announced then because of all the paperwork...