This doesn’t necessarily make the spouse your employee and make you liable for payroll taxes. One lawyer who had his wife do paralegal work in her home office; she only got paid if he won the case. The IRS said she was an employee, but the Tax Court said no; she was a self-employed sole proprietor.
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