notaperviemusculargent
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The IRS chances of going after him are not low and they have unlimited time if they accuse him of fraud. They are not limited by any 3 year, 6 year nor 10 year Statute of Limitations. If your Dad is 61, he was 33 in 1980. Did he file from the time he was 16 or so until he was 33? If so, he's in the system. Perhaps he lived in a foreign country prior to 1981? |
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Judy1
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Gee, cheating on his taxes for all that time really worked out well, didn't it? Now he has to pay the price, or some of the price. It's too late now to make it up.
And to make matters worse, if the IRS stumbles on his tax evasion for those years, they can still collect the money from him since he never filed. Chances of that happening are very low though. |
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bostonianinmo
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Filing those old returns won't help any with SSA. Income must be reported within the 3 year window following the filing deadline for the tax return. That income is WAY too old to be included on his earnings record now.
He got his "benefit" from cheating on his taxes way back when. Now he gets to pay the price for that. Hope he has enough other resources to get by, or you have enough to help. |
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AnnieG
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You may be able to go back 3 - 4 years.
See here for resources to file your prior year taxes online - without downloading old forms or old software. |
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stephenweinstein
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Even if it is possible, filing income taxes for those years will not help. It is too late to have the earnings added to his social security record. |
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wartz
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He can file tax returns as far back as he wants but as for getting the benefits that he would have got had he filed timely, his choices are slotted and Phillips. |
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Mercedes R
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I would venture to say no because it'd be impossible to get the forms for that year and if he owed money, he'd owe a ridiculous amount of penalties. Most people that work "under the table" need to have a lot (I'm talking a few thousand minimum) to balance it out so he wouldn't owe money, even with dependents for those years. |
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Heady S
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nope, you get 3 years to file back taxes, thats it, thats all. |
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Mathew
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You can file a tax return for each of those years. It may be difficult to establish how much he earned from the "off the books" activity. Before you get excited about this idea you should know that he will be paying at least 15.3% of the net earnings from that "off the books" earnings to Social Security and Medicare. In addition it is likely that he will owe some income tax. In either case he may be subject to penalities and interest. Generally those totals double every three years,compounding the problem. If he had about $500 a year that he would have owed that will now be something like $382,000. You need to look at this carefully before you do anything. |
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Dave T
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Lower Social Security payment is one of the costs of working under the table. While it is not likely the IRS will go after your father, the statutes for collection is still open for these years. The collection statutes is 10 years from the date the return is filed or the date the IRS adjusts the return. The collection statutes has not started running yet on those unfiled years.
Sometimes the IRS files returns for people that have not filed. Your father can go to the local IRS office and see if he has any outstanding tax debt.
You might just want to leave this alone is my best guess. |
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Ms. Angel..
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The IRS is at this time only accepting Tax Return for 2001 thru 2007. You do not have to file, but IRS might of filed them for him at he might owe. So I won't open a can of worms at this time. |
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