<prompt> Human: First off long time lurker, first time poster. My roommate, lets call her Brittany, has been having a tough time with her current employer because they refuse to put her on a W-2 and she cannot afford to pay her taxes for this year.A little background, Brittany is the studio manager of a photo booth company where she works 10-30 hours a week, typically 20 but 30 in the busy seasons. Brittany is in charge of product development, staffing, administration and inventory, preparing all gear for live events, repairing equipment, website maintenance, in short hand you name it she does it. The owner is always giving her more and more to do, she literally runs this company for him. When she received her 1099 it said Photo Technician and all of her income for the year is listed under nonemployee compensation. Brittany makes an hourly wage, how can this be nonemployee compensation? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading.  <response>: Fill out Form SS-8. Then do taxes treating her income as wages, not self-employment income. Pay the social security and Medicare taxes as if she was a W-2 employee by using Form 8919, saying that SS-8 has been filed and response from IRS is pending. IRS will investigate whether the relationship is employeremployee or clientcontractor. 