Angie asks: If my name was never on a mortgage, but was on the deed, am I able to claim the $8,000 tax credit on a house I purchased myself? I am currently getting divorced and my name was only on the deed and I am in process of buying my own home. [...]

MB asks: I have an LLC and have found a contract position through a third party. I want to be paid on a corp-to-corp basis. The third party broker says that they can only pay me on a corp-to-corp basis if I can show proof that I pay myself on a W2 basis. I tried to explain that single party LLC’s don’t pay themselves as W2 employees. I file a Schedule C. The company says that because the work being done in classified as “W2″ work (as opposed to independent contractor work), they have to be sure that whoever they contract is being paid as a “W2″ employee. Is this true? Can LLC’s not be paid for doing “W2″ work? [...]