I'm 36 and in 2020 I married an amazing girl who had worked as an Au Pair for 3 years. An Au Pair has a special J-1 visa and their employer, a host family, is not required to withhold taxes or even provide them with a W-2. Long story short she never filed for 2 of the years but did in 2020 as we are now married and I do my own taxes. My question is, is it worthwhile to file and pay for those back taxes? When doing the math, the penalties, fees, and interest would equal almost HALF of what she made at that time, which seems a little crazy. Her friends who were au pairs who got married here never had the issue come up and never filed/paid/addressed the back taxes, however I do make a good income and fear the long arm of uncle Sam digging deeper into my accounts. I know the right answer is to file and beg for forgiveness but my wife and our friends think I'm looking for problems with the tax man. Has any ever experienced anything like this? Worth the risk to skip out or would you fall on the sword and beg for forgiveness?
Submitted March 02, 2021 at 07:54PM by free_billstickers https://ift.tt/3kMoEDq
