Asked in Tax Law for Texas

Q: Two companies I worked for, did not pay my taxes correctly and now I owe money to the IRS. What can I do?

one of the companies I worked for, for a year and they only paid 51 dollars in taxes, yet my taxes was taken out of every check. Same with the other company except they only paid 320 dollars in taxes for the months I was working with them (temp agency) now the IRS is claiming I didn’t file my taxes correctly for 2020 and saying I owe them. The first company I spoke to my old boss and she told me that the owners did this to everyone, I haven’t been able to contact the temp agency at this time. I know I am going to have to pay, I just wanted to see if I had other options. Because I don’t claim deductions on my tax returns I go off my W-2’s as I fully believed I was paying into my taxes.

Could this be considered Tax Fraud? I have no way of telling the IRS that I did pay my taxes

Edit: I have confirmed that the owner of the business did this to all his employees, presumably because the restaurant was failing

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Linda Simmons Campbell
Linda Simmons Campbell
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  • Tax Law Lawyer
  • Burlington, CT

A: The easiest way to resolve this would be to provide the IRS copies of your paystubs which show what was actually taken out of your check.

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