<prompt> Human: Edit: through threw. Sorry. On mobile.Last year I started working for my then fiancés uncle making a spreadsheet in excel here, photoshop some pictures there capacity. I was paid via personal check.My SO and I had planned to go to Charlseton for our honeymoon. When her uncle found out, he offered to send us to Maui and pay our airfare. He used points he had in DiamondRCI around 8,000 out of 125,000 points and paid our airfare with skymiles. He paid 1.60 to cover the rest.In March he took my SO and I to the Bahamas to attend a business conference. It was 90 business, the meetings lasted from 8am to 9pm. We had 4 hours of free time the final day before we had to board our plane.In May I started in a fulltime capacity doing everythung from presentation creation to recording and editing video, social media marketing, you name it.Im paid weekly and he withholds 20 for taxes.My SO and I are now married. Maui was great.Last week I was handed a 1099, even though Ive been told I was an employee the whole year and he had been withholding wages. The amount paid was far larger than I made.I asked for a break down of my pay and he emailed me an excel spreadsheet that broke my pay into 4 entities: amount payed, amount withheld, the Bahamas and Maui both as bonuses.The numbers didnt add up. Anywhere. The amount paid was something X5. I dont mean times five but that the last digit of what I was paid ended in a 5. I only received paychecks that ended in 0. Every. Last. One. How did a 5 end up there? It just shows me that he did some creative accounting on his part.The amount withheld ended in X.25. The amount I am paid is a flat amount, there is no change, no single denominations. Again this didnt add up.Both of my bonus trips were broken down into airfare and accomodations. The Bahamas:600 airfare800 accomodationsMaui:1700 airfare5700 accomodations.The trip was a gift and I was not an employee at the time. He paid with points for our stay and used a personal card to pay for airfare.He also sent my wifes cousin on a trip two months before us, also using points to Colorado and she was not taxed given anything about it on her taxes. He even talked to me aboit it saying their trip was more expensive than ours because of the timing.My wife has a large family and were afraid of all thus having a really ugly outcome with everyone. This doesnt even include the fact he will likely fire me if any litigation comes of it and I left a half decent job for this one and kind of burnt bridges taking it.Also, my wife just pointed out that in 2014 he came to her asking if he could use our address for the company for mail. He was going through a divorce and was living at a resort at the time. She agreed. We just found out that he electronically signed for both of us and we are listed as representatives of the company although neither of us knew it and technically she was the only one to consent to anything. He basically forged my signature electronically as I had no idea and would not have agreed to at the time since my SO and I werent married and I wasnt working for him at all.What should we do? The tax on over 7k is more than we can afford at this point.We talked to an accountant who pointed us to a lawyer who said that it is over their head, who then pointed us to the state bar. Im reluctant to call because if I was self employed and he fires me, can I get a severance or be entitled to unemployment? Will I have to face paying a retainer and try to find work quickly?Thanks, any help is appreciated.Edit 2: a week later and I still havent been paid the withheld amount. Also sorry for any spellinggrammar errors. Im on mobile and not at home to use the laptop.  <response>: Sounds like he may be wanting to get a return on those trips by labeling them a business expense. He would get around 10 of the costs of those trips back as cash. Honestly the difference is probably going to be about 700Ive tried to do tax shit with family members and it permanently hurt our relationship, I regret ever throwing a fit over 1000If I were you, though its not right what your SOs father has done I would bite the bullet, pay the 700 in taxes on those bonuses and then look for new employment at an actual company. It sounds like you have great skills and experience now due to you working for your SOs father, you probably apply for some good jobs now. Unless youre really hurting for cash, just take the 700-1000 dollar hit, and find a new job. Its not worth tarnishing any kind of relationship with your SOs family, especially since your SOs father probably thinks hes done you a favor by sending you on these trips. Youll just disrespect him by questioning his tax filing. Hes either an asshole, or stupid, and fighting with either of those types of people will just dig you a hole 