text: can i get a w2 and 1099 from the same job? i'm a member of a large anesthesiology group.  the income structure is identical for all members of the group. we bill in time based units on anesthesia services we deliver to the patient.  many in the group have assumed additional, uncompensated, roles. we have a board of directors who manages the business side of things (i'm a board member). we have others who spend hours each week on unpaid tasks such as running the group website. nobody gets paid for this and nobody wants to pay someone else to do this.  we can currently expense items related to our work and take this out of our own billings on a pre-tax basis. if i buy books or attend a meeting, i fill out an expense report and get that money reimbursed to me pre-tax  my question is can we pay ourselves for uncompensated non-anesthesia work and shift some income from our w2 to a 1099? more flexibility in deducting things on the sched c and we already pay our own employers portion of income tax so the self employment tax is a wash this sounds like a good question to discuss with an accountant.  a lot will depend on the specifics...