Effective Writing 10th Edition by Claire May,Gordon May

Exercise 16

Assume you are a CPA specializing in tax accounting for individuals in your community. One of your clients, Alicia Evans, has sent you the following email.
As you know, I have recently returned to work full time and need to hire someone to help me with house cleaning. I need to know what, if any, obligations I will have for withholding social security. Will I have any other tax or reporting obligations? I am considering the following possibilities:
1. Hiring an individual who has a business license and is self-employed as a contractor. This person would clean my house weekly. In return, I would pay this person $100 a week for 50 weeks of the year.
2. Using a cleaning service, who would send one of its employees to my home. I would use this service biweekly at $125 per visit, for a total of 26 visits per year.
3. Hiring my neighbor, who does not have a business license. She would clean my house biweekly, and I would pay her $75 each visit, for a total of 26 visits each year.

Write a letter to Ms. Evans in which you answer her questions.