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Hey, hey, what's up everybody?

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 177 of Ask Pat.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

A lot of you know that I had in the past a couple virtual assistants from the Philippines

and they were great. They were amazing. Currently I have a team, but they're all U.S.-based,

but I have worked with overseas workers before. And one of the most common questions I get has to

do with working with VA. So let's hear that question today from Pete.

Hey, Pat, this is Pete from elfboxes.com. I have a question about dealing with virtual

assistance and people that you contract overseas to do stuff with your website or to handle

your tasks. When you deal with someone like that, would you have to do a W-9 or something like that like

you would for an American?

And when you're filing out your taxes and keeping track of your expenses, when dealing

with these virtual assistance and people overseas, is there anything that you need to keep

in mind with that?

Is it still fully deductible, stuff like that?

Thanks for taking the time to answer these questions, Pat.

Pete, thank you so much for the question.

And, you know, this is, like I said, a very common question.

And, you know, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a professional accountant for CPA,

which is why I asked my accountant Dave over at

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