I'm a student who interned over the summer at a small startup company with a questionable CEO/boss. I worked restaurant jobs and another internship in the past, so I know the bare minimum of: 1) I gotta file my taxes, and 2) just follow whatever TurboTax tells me to do, like upload my W2 that my employers send by end of January. It's February and I haven't gotten my W2, so I ask my boss if he can send it over, but he says I need to fill a W9 because I'm a contractor not an employee. I have no idea what this means, but it seems that I'll need to pay more in taxes because I pay it myself instead of my employer withholding income. I feel like my employer was purposely misleading me because I'm a student with little knowledge and experience. I only got paid around the minimum wage, but my payment seemed to be below the hourly wage I was supposed to get so I always assumed it was due to the tax being withheld. I feel so dumb, and I was really counting on the tax refund to help pay for some of my living costs and now it seems I'll have to pay instead. :( What should I do?
Submitted February 08, 2020 at 04:38PM by sadscammedstudent https://ift.tt/3bmyff1
