An employee may be in breach but a serious business may exercise their prerogative to overlook that if they feel the employee is a high performer or even just for overall morale.

So currently its me,my wife and 1 employee that run this business.

Provided you kept receipts. 1099 employee work is deductible.

Being an investor/business owner is completely different than a W-2 employee who receives a pay check consistently.

A: Well, since you do not participate in anything that IBM does, you don't generate income for IBM, you don't pay expenses or hire employees for IBM.

Give corporate office the name of agent and copy of any info of how you were told you were not accepted.This type of behavior by leasing agent is how employees embezzle, so go online and see if you can figure out corporate office before checking back with the leasing agent.

And beware, not all Pro Desk employees are created equally.

My husband and I both have great credit, my husband is the W2 employee,  my company is 20+ year, consistent profit producing, tax paying company, with decent DTI in our personal finances.

In that book he talks about the mindsets of four different ways of earning an income: Employee, Small Business, Big Business, and Investor.A lot of the things that have been said here come from a small business mindset.

If you have elect S-crop, you don’t have to pay self-employment taxes on the Corp’s Net Income, but only after the reasonable salary to the employee (which will be you).