my former employer made a mistake when paying my tax.How can I get her to pay off the debt she refuse to pay?

Question

My former employee paid my tax wrongly causing me to owe the gov a great deal of money and she got away with only paying a very small amount.I confronted her and she deny having to pay so much.She even demand I pay her if I want her to pay the tax for me.It was her mistake from the start and she is refusing to pay off the debt that she has caused me. What can I do? How can I make her pay the debt?

There was a written contract that when she pays me the tax will not be included in the money that she pays me. She told me I will receive an on hand money and she will pay my tax and super seperately. that was in the written agreement..

Answer 1

You are the one who owes the tax, not your employer. If your employer under-withheld your taxes, you STILL owe the tax. Your employer is NOT liable for the tax.

It is YOUR responsibility to ensure that the proper amount is withheld from your wages and to immediately notify your employer if the withholding is wrong.

You can't make her pay the debt. She does not owe it, you do. She is absolutely correct in demanding that you pay her if you want her to pay in the withholdings on your behalf.

She did not cause your tax debt. You did by not paying attention!

If you have proof that your employer under-withheld deliberately (to reduce her payroll tax deposits) you can report her to the tax authorities for possible prosecution but you are still going to owe for YOUR taxes.

Answer 2

well first off she didn't rip you off.

all year long you have tax taken out of your paycheck. lets just say for argument they take $20 a week in tax. now your ex boss might have put down on the tax paperwork the wrong info, like saying you had a dependent or two (kids) so now they only take $10 out of you check. you think GREAT...I got an extra $10 a week.....in a way you did. but since you didn't have any dependents when you filed your taxes it bumped you back to the $20 bracket. So now you have to pay the difference between the two amounts. If the full amount is taken out of each check or the minimum amount, it is your job to pay your taxes, not your ex boss's. They are already paying almost the same amount of tax you are for just employing you in the first place.

Average person who has no kids or anything has a total tax of about 21% taken out. When you fill out tax paperwork and if you put down 0 dependents then the full 21% will be taken out each time. This is best way to go so at the end of the year you either owe only a few dollars or you get a few dollars back. You can even have a few extra dollars taken out of each check and put into taxes. So when you do the taxes at the end of the year and there is that over pay, you get a refund. But if you have a kid or something, then you might put down a number different than 0 for dependents. This in turn will lower how much tax will be taken out of each paycheck off of the 21%...might be say 16% instead.

This is why taxes are taken out of each paycheck cause otherwise no one could pay them when they came in a lump sum. Say you made $100,000 for the year and you had to pay 21% tax on that all at once....thats $21,000 out of pocket at once.

Your ex boss's only crime is filling out paperwork wrong and at most she might, MIGHT get a small fine from the IRS but highly doubt anything would even be done.

You have to understand how taxes work and all before you go blaming someone for stealing money, etc. What you are doing to her is called slander and your ex boss could actually sue you for saying she did something when she didn't. So watch what you say at times.

Answer 3

If you go to the ATO website, they have a calculator to work out the correct amount to be paid.

You don't need to pay your tax, your tax protion should come out of your wage. For example, if your wage is $20000, you won't receive $20000 as your employer should take money away from that amount. So if you have $5000 tax withheld, you only receive $15000 in your pocket.

Your tax debt is your responsibility now, but you can ask your employer to take more tax out in the future, because your total wage shouldn't change. If this hasn't been happening, your employer has been calculating it incorrectly.

Answer 4

YES. Tax them on any nonworship buildings, stocks and bond holdings, trusts, real estate, businesses, mouseholes, etc. If its not assembled in for worship on a weekly basis by the majority of the congregation, baby, slap that tax slip on it! Maybe these overfed, unhealthy churches will wake up to the fact that this world should not, in fact, be our home. People are hurting out there! THEY count. Not another huge new "temple" filled with expensive items and muzak for meditating, not A/C or new curtains. Those don't bring in people for WORSHIP of God. Love does. The time for that garbage is way OVER. Churches should not be in the business of business. Stick to what you SHOULD know. The Gospel of Jesus Christ. @ Doubting? I love you. If you only knew what you just said meant. Truly. Thank you.

Answer 5

Unfortuanlty you can't do anything about it, whenever you start a paid job it is your responsibility to check that you are being taxed accordingly not you employers..suck's I know, But I had a similar issue at the previous place I worked (hence being previous) and this is in australia too...

Answer 6

I would suggest contacting a lawyer and asking them this question, honestly if it is her fault and she made the mistake all you are going to need is the proof which hopefully you will have some or be able to find some to prove that she did it and then she will have no choice but to pay