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Thanks. That's about what I expected. They withheld 15% on the payroll company because they realized I would be in Canada more than that length of time, that's my guess. I was just reading some of the rules about 'independent contractors' and trying to figure out if that applied to me. Guess I need ...

Well my income is reported usually both ways, but on this job, because I'm a union member, and was paid through a payroll company, it was reported on a W2. Is that in and of itself enough to say I was an 'employee' and not a contractor?

Tim

First of all, this is a great forum, and I'm learning a lot. Here's my situation in a nutshell: I lived in Vancouver for almost all of 2007 working on a film project. The project should have taken 5 months, it took a year. I was paid in US dollars through a US payroll company, but they withheld 15% ...