Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
I have a numbnuts employee that came to me (why?) this morning telling me that she hasn't filed a tax return in 10 years (!) Somehow, the IRS isn't contacting or harassing her for payment and she hasn't had her wages garnished or anything. However, she has this hanging on her head/conscience and wanted to know the best way to go about rectifying the situation. Apparently, she claimed exemptions in the past to maximize her pay check because she made very little money (she said ~$20k annually on average) and then simply never filed a return - going back to the mid 2000s.
I called her an ###hole and told her I have absolutely no idea because I am a real American, like Hulk Hogan, and pay my taxes (probably unlike Hulk Hogan) but that I would try to find out what her best move is at this point. Ignore it because they aren't coming after her? Go to one of these tax attorneys that always run TV ads this time of year and go over options in a free consultation? Contact the IRS directly and get her liability and try to work out a payment plan? I have no frigging clue what the move is here, or even why she asked me and not someone who might know anything about this. I told her I'd try to find out though, and as this board is almost always my best resource. She's a little nervous about contacting the IRS when they haven't been pursuing the past liability - she's also married (I presume they file separately) and she doesn't want them going after her husband. I don't know if they can do that or not.
TIA - will answer yours.
I called her an ###hole and told her I have absolutely no idea because I am a real American, like Hulk Hogan, and pay my taxes (probably unlike Hulk Hogan) but that I would try to find out what her best move is at this point. Ignore it because they aren't coming after her? Go to one of these tax attorneys that always run TV ads this time of year and go over options in a free consultation? Contact the IRS directly and get her liability and try to work out a payment plan? I have no frigging clue what the move is here, or even why she asked me and not someone who might know anything about this. I told her I'd try to find out though, and as this board is almost always my best resource. She's a little nervous about contacting the IRS when they haven't been pursuing the past liability - she's also married (I presume they file separately) and she doesn't want them going after her husband. I don't know if they can do that or not.
TIA - will answer yours.