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Do any of you work as independent contractors and have an LLC? I have worked mostly as a Independent Contractor for the past 3 years. My tax person has not said I have to have an LLC... I discussed with a recruiter a position and he said I would have option of independent contractor but that I would have to make an LLC or I could be an employee. This was in Texas. I did a little research and you have to pay for the LLC but also yearly taxes on what you make I'm assuming in addition to regular taxes.. Texas doesn't have any state taxes so I would think an LLC in Texas would make one's tax liability unnecessarily higher. I don't know what one could deduct as an LLC that you can't just deduct as an individual working as an independent contractor. My tax lady says I can deduct all expenses related to work as it is as an independent contractor. I don't plan on opening my own business or anything like that... I'm also not sure why this particular job said one would HAVE to have an LLC or they couldn't work as an independent contractor.... Would there be any benefit for the LLC?

So I am curious to know if any American is doing this? Perhaps I will be the first. I have previous lived in Germany 3.5 years and speak fluent German. My boyfriend is German and lives in Stuttgart and we are trying to figure a way to be closer together. I am currently living in the US. I have student loans and don't want to downgrade my 10 years of education to the level of nursing that is practiced in Germany. I have discovered Switzerland has something similar to Nurse Practitioners, and I hope to find out more about exactly what their scope of practice is after apply to a few positions. I have also read one must pass a language test at a certain level, which will not be any problem since I already studied in German at a German university and was previously accepted to medical school in Germany. The switzerland equivalent appears to be called a Pflegeexpert/-in, and they use the abbreviations HoeFa II and MNS (Master of Nursing Science). So far the positions I have seen are pretty general and don't really explain what I would be doing, and I am thinking a lot of it will be management, even though the Nurse Practitioner is attempting to be developed there. I practice now doing mostly Urgent Care, doing some Occupational medicine, and my next job will be ER. (I do locum tenens/travelling work and love it) I have studied to long and worked too hard to give up my role, so I need to find something similar. At the same time I will be applying for positions in Germany at military bases, but so far that has been a dead end, despite actually having interviews in person at a few bases in Germany. If there are even any nurses working in Switzerland who know how Pflegeexpertin are being utilized I would greatly appreciate it, and any networking tips would be appreciated. Esp. if there are any US nurses working in Switzerland I would like to know how you went about doing it, how are you dealing with paying taxes in the US as well. I may even make my situation more unique and complicated by possibly living in Germany on the border which i believe means i have to pay German taxes, work in Switzerland, and because I am American I have to pay US taxes as well.... I am trying to pay off student loans so I need to make a similar income to what I am here in the US. Thanks for any input.