At work they gave me an option; be hired as an independent contractor or an employee. I told them I wanted to be categorized as an employee. They agreed. They did tell me that, because they are a small company that has never had employees besides on and off family members, they often just paid them cash. They would need a bit of time to file paper work and figure out the process to collect taxes from me. 2 weeks into it I asked if they had everything ready for the taxes to be taken out of my paycheck. They said they were just waiting for a form from the IRS and I would be good to go. I asked again the following week, they said the same thing. I left it at that. I had a suspicion that they never did anything about it. But we do get tips a lot of the time so I attribjted the "extra money as the tips showing up in my paycheck. This was all about 7months ago.
Important note I filled a w4 before starting the job but about a day after starting they sent me another form to fill out. I recognized the form as an independent contractor tax form. I asked why they made me fill that out and they said it was a for their old accounting service. They only needed that to pay me for the first couple weeks until the w4 was good to go. I shouldn't worry about it.
Fast forward to last month. I got a 1099 tax return form and found out I owe a significant amount of money. I got categorized as an independent contractor the whole time. I asked them about it.
Here's what happened: I asked why I was categorized as an independent contractor. My boss said we agreed on it. I replied, "that was not what I remember." 100% of the time I would choose to have employee benefits over nothing. She said that she had switched to an accounting service that would handle paychecks and the only/easiest way was for everyone to be an independent contractor. I told her that I did not agree to that. I remember her saying it would be for only 2 weeks, a month tops, until the IRS sent her the documents she needed to make me a payable employee. I tried to give her wiggle room by saying that it was partly my fault for not asking as soon as I noticed something odd. She got defensive and tried to intimidate me with something irrelevant to the story.
I'm not sure if a 2 weeks notice is necessary as I am not an employee.
I feel like the whole thing has been sketchy and I want advice on how to handle the situation and how to go about deducting things from my taxes?
Submitted February 03, 2019 at 01:36PM by philosophyofuranus http://bit.ly/2G8zDFF
