- Report: #893360
Complaint Review: Erikacombs-tierney - Internet
Reported By:
drainedtalent -
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America
Submitted:
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Author Not Confirmed
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Erikacombs-tierney
34804 SE Curtis Drive Snoqualmie, Washington 98065 Internet, United States of America
Phone:
425-396-5002
Web:
www.mega-productions.com
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Erikacombs-tierney Scam, Talent Agency Internet
I concur to the above statements that Chris B. made about Erika Combs-Tierney. Erika Combs-Tierney, too, has scammed me. She has not paid me $300 or so payments that are owed to me. She bombarded me with emails and texts to work Dove and Caress Events at Costco in the Honolulu, HI. I never flaked on any of the shifts I was scheduled to work, showed up to Costco on time, filled the timesheet and demonstrations sheet correctly, emailed the sheets in a timely matter, signed the demonstrators log at Costco. She is quick to book you for events but if you have payment questions she's reluctant to reply back.
Erika Combs-Tierney is incompetent as a business owner. One example: a past check that was fedex'ed to me was not mailed out to my mailing address because she did not write the correct address on the envelope. I picked up my check at my local FedEx come to find that it wasnt delivered because of the mistake.
In addition she withholds taxes from your paycheck (I am an Independent Contractor not and employee of Mega Productions), which is unlawful tax practice. As an Independent Contractor working for 60+ agencies around the United States, Mega Productions is the only agency that withheld income tax, Social Security, Medicaid, and other taxes. The pay was initially $16.50 an hour for these events but with taxes withheld it came out to only working for an estimate of $11.00 an hour. I was even reluctant to work due to such low pay.
"Generally, you must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment tax on wages paid to an employee. You do not generally have to withhold or pay any taxes on payments to independent contractors."
Taken from IRS.GOV http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.html
Erika Combs-Tierney is incompetent as a business owner. One example: a past check that was fedex'ed to me was not mailed out to my mailing address because she did not write the correct address on the envelope. I picked up my check at my local FedEx come to find that it wasnt delivered because of the mistake.
In addition she withholds taxes from your paycheck (I am an Independent Contractor not and employee of Mega Productions), which is unlawful tax practice. As an Independent Contractor working for 60+ agencies around the United States, Mega Productions is the only agency that withheld income tax, Social Security, Medicaid, and other taxes. The pay was initially $16.50 an hour for these events but with taxes withheld it came out to only working for an estimate of $11.00 an hour. I was even reluctant to work due to such low pay.
"Generally, you must withhold income taxes, withhold and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment tax on wages paid to an employee. You do not generally have to withhold or pay any taxes on payments to independent contractors."
Taken from IRS.GOV http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99921,00.html
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Mega
Snoqualmie,Washington,
United States of America
Incorrect and slanderous
#2REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, January 22, 2013
First of all, the person in Hawaii refers to the fact we fedexed her check. That means we paid her for work done. Secondly, instead of posting an inaccurate and slanderous statement- contact us.
Thirdly,we were fedexing her checks since, she had moved and they were coming back to us. It is quite expensive to fedex to Hawaii and we did as a courtesy. Fourthly, the payrolls forms submitted for employment were a W-4. If this person did not want to work as a legal employee than they should have declined the work. The legal definition for taxes of an independent contractor is that they must own their own business and business license and work indepedently. The job cannot be done by an independent contractor because they take direction from a third party and are not paid through a business name. All information relating to legally working as a independent contractor can be seen on irs.gov. Sadly, none of these complaints were ever made to us via phone or email. They are both incorrect and slanderous. If you don't want taxes taken out then don't fill out a W-4 and become and employee. In addition , the IRS is coming down heavily on unreported 1099 income.
drainedtalent
Chicago,Illinois,
United States of America
Update
#3Author of original report
Sat, June 09, 2012
UPDATE:
After, emailing Erika Combs-Tierny about this matter and warned her that If I did not receive payments I would write on Ripoff reports about Mega Productions. I have since received the payments that was owed to me by Erika Combs-Tierny. Please, discard the above statements because payments have been made by Mega Productions.
