But he says the audit was "nerve wracking" because tax law doesn't make it easy to distinguish between full-time staff and independent contractors doing full-time work.
Authors, especially first-time and independent ones, count on word of mouth and reader reviews to sell books.
The cases were brought by the U.S. Department of Justice's Campaign Financing Task Force and one-time Independent Counsel Ken Starr.
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The whole system is now being reviewed again - this time by the independent committee on standards in public life - which will bring forward its own recommendations later this year.
In June 2007, Mike Bloomberg once again changed is political party affiliation--this time from Republican to independent.
But had it broken any earlier, there might have been more time for a strong anti-Mallon Independent candidate to emerge.
Independent Capability: Proponents contend that, given the fact that the Japanese have already designed the FS-X predecessor (the F-1) and have coproduced the F-4 and F-15 fighter aircraft with McDonnell-Douglas, the Japanese have an independent capability, with time, to design and produce the FS-X.
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Hire an independent party to calculate time-weighted returns on your investments, as opposed to relying upon any broker or private bank involved with recommending them.
Independent filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee John Sayles observes that recent Oscars have also lacked star power.
Conversely, an independent contractor does a one-time job for you for a fee on his own schedule with his own tools, in his own way.
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Experts said there may not be time to carry out the multiple independent audits that large-scale construction projects like stadiums typically require to ensure safety.
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Ms. Williams gave the best performance among the Spirit Awards winners with a touching acceptance speech acknowledging her kinship with low-budget independent filmmakers and recalling her first time at the ceremony a decade ago.
They had an important political raison d'etre as well, however, bringing together representatives from all the various independent city-states that at that time made up the Greek world, states that more often than not were at war with each other.
At least that's what I tell myself every year about this time -- that September, October and November will make the multiplexes, and the nation's dwindling stock of independent theaters, reasonably safe for sentient adults.
As a first time independent traveler, it has been a great head-clearing trip of a lifetime.
Stein is the former independent counsel who investigated and cleared one-time Attorney General Ed Meese.
Then there's Jacob Rees-Mogg's proposal for an independent Somerset time zone, and Philip Davies' proposal to call it the "Berlin Time" Bill.
Changes in board practices and behavior will be essential if directors are to provide independent oversight of executives--real-time performance information unfiltered by management, new meeting formats that foster more open discussion, and the freedom to interact, unfettered by management, with the leaders of business units.
The plug is the physical and economic link that makes it possible, for the first time, to connect two nearly independent parts of our energy economy--the oil and the non-oil domains.
His victory is the first time an independent or smaller party candidate has won a parliamentary by-election from another party in Britain since March 1973, when Dick Taverne won the Lincoln by-election (taking it from Labour).
Set up in 1974, the independent charity, which has 64 full and part-time staff and 380 volunteers, has run a retail arm in Cardiff for about 20 years.
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Instead of meekly resigning, the judge, Iftikhar Chaudhry, embarked on a flamboyant nationwide campaign demanding the establishment, for the first time in Pakistan's turbulent 60-year history, of a genuinely independent judiciary.
Recent research by MBO Partners, which provides business infrastructure to self-employed professionals, found that low income was a chief source of unhappiness for dissatisfied independent workers and drives some back into seeking full-time jobs.
Thirteen years later, Vee-Jay Records became the country's biggest independent, black-owned record label, and for a time, it was bigger than Motown.
That should change next year when the council is scrapped in favour of a more independent body, which will have a number of full-time members, chosen for their technical expertise, alongside a 50-strong permanent staff of specialists.
Slaggie is a long-time employee of Fastenal who retired in 1996 as Treasurer and now serves as an independent director.
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It really is way past time for the decades-old claims of PhRMA to be held up for careful scrutiny using independent analysis such as that carried out in the GAO report.
Corporate employers figure it is cheaper in the long run for these freelancers to become full-time employees than it would be to fight the IRS over whether they "qualify" as independent contractors.
"Aquamosh, " the band's first major-label release, somehow retains its "recorded in the garage in our spare time" feel of independent albums.
Once upon a time, publishers had relatively small lists of new authors whose books they distributed to independent bookstores and small-format mall chains like Waldenbooks and B Dalton.
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