My husband is very young 24 years old. When he was in high school and became of age to have credit, his dad took advantage of him and had my husband borrow loans for him. My husband was very young and naive and he didn't really know anything about credit. Well his father never payed back the debts and left my husband with bad credit. Then about the time my husband was 19, his father convinced him to open a small construction business with employees. Well, everything ended up under my husband's name soley and there were never any attempts to contact an accountant to handle the tax situation. In addition to construction, my husband's father had my husband buy and sell real estate under my husband's name. This went on for about 2 years and my husband being young and naive trusted his dad was doing the right thing and he thought his dad was taking care of everything, because my husband didn't really know anything about a business or taxes. More....
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The whole time, my husband was only receiving an hourly income and the only person who was really benifitting from any profit was his father. The business was never closed and no taxes were ever filed. My husband hasn't filed taxes since he was nineteen and he doesn't even know where to start because of the situation his father put him in. My husband and I can't afford an accountant so we don't know what to do. His father is no help either. We are just stuck and we just want to make things right. We just don't know where to go or where to start. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of receipts and paperwork missing so I don't even know what we would give to an accountant. We are just so scared that my husband owes a large amount of money in taxes and it's all his father's fault. Of course on paper it doesn't look that way. Help!!