So from everything I'm reading (and there are plenty of questions) the 1099-NEC is little more than a Scam by businesses to avoid paying social security and putting the burden on employees. Instead of their paying the taxes as they should they have put the onus on the worker now to make them pay those taxes as supposedly being self employed. If this isn't the case please let me know why? You are now required to file Form SS-8 Determination of Worker Status for Purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding, making it so confusing most people just accept they are now considered self employed for tax purposes.
There is little or no information how long it takes to get this determination or what to do if you wish to file it?
Will penalties be involved?
Do you file independent of your taxes, with your taxes?
If with then how do you complete your taxes?
My son works for a Catering company, has no input as to his tasks on the job that does not make him self employed yet that is how it works under this new system.
