/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>17067753
Leave it like that.
Chances are the Irs isn't going to go after you, but may go after them.
In the off case chance the Irs does actually say something to you, you can subrogate a claim against your employer (that will probably require an attorney).
Don't worry about it now, just take care of what you need to do forward from today.

Yes they will, and when they do you will have to pay 10s of thousands. Same for your employer, unless they will be bankrupt, which sounds like they will because their accounting department is shit.

I had the same thing, but only for 6 months. Went through a huge ordeal with HR until I threatened to call IRS and have them tell my work what they need to do. Ended up costing me thousands, but I sleep well now.
3 years is a lot. Good luck bro

>>17067809
Ya I was afraid , if the IRS goes after my employer, the employer might retaliate against me and fire me or something.
Also IRS does not go back more than 3 years history ?

I think both employer and employee pay SSN taxes ?

>>17067753
Hmm this is pretty interesting. Your income tax return, as an employee, shouldn’t include anything about payroll tax. If you were self employed it would, but as long as you get a W-2 instead of a 1099, you should have no responsibility to pay payroll taxes. So you getting nothing back on your taxes doesn’t have anything to do with this. That said, unless you are recategorized as self employed, I think this is 100% on the company. If the IRS comes to fuck shit up, it will be on the company to pay it off and to pay the associated interest and penalties. They might try to cuck you into a pay decrease or something to make up for it when they find out, but I don’t think the IRS come after you. I did zero actual research though and could be wrong.
t. former CPA and tax accountant

>>17067965
Wtf those hotdogs would only last me a day or two max

>>17067965
The boxes 2 to 8 are empty. Does it mean the employer did not pay ssn / medicare taxes for me?

>>17068030
*boxes 3 to 8 as shown in the screenshot

>>17068030
>>17068039
Sounds like it, but it could also just be an erroneous W-2. Those numbers shouldn’t appear anywhere on your income tax return though, so it’s really an employer problem.

>>17068433
ya, I am just worried about employer retaliating against me if I go and tell them now. or cutting back my wages , when they made a mistake. But should it ever be resolved in the future? Else huge penalties?

>>17067753
>Will the evilest tax system in the world come after me?
You know they will eventually

>>17068511
Nah, don’t rock the boat. There’s a good chance nothing will happen for years and years.

>>17068511
The employer is required to automatically withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes, I believe. The employer is absolutely required to make its own payments to Social Security and Medicare. This means that your employer is required to pay the government ~1% of your gross income for the employer's portion of Medicare taxes; your employer is also required to pay ~6.5% on the first $120K or so of your gross income for its portion of Social Security taxes.

I would say that you need to bring this up with HR and not worry about getting fired. I cannot imagine how shitty the company is that would fire you for telling them that they are in violation of U.S. federal law. But the key thing is, if you don't give the federal government its money, it's going to make your life a living hell.

You can check if you've actually paid Social Security taxes or not by registering your account with the Social Security Administration:

https://www.ssa.gov/

It's a good idea to enroll no matter what so that no scammer can grab your account before you do. Once you enroll your account, you'll see a record of Social Security tax payments for every year you filed a tax return. If there are years where you filed but see no SS taxes paid, then you have to work with your employer to address this.

Note: If there is an honest mistake and you are making an earnest effort to pay the taxes owed, the IRS is quite reasonable. Don't be afraid of the IRS if you owe them money and it's not your fault.