<prompt> Human: Heres the situation:Ive been employed by a company thats been paying me as an independent contractor for a while and recently we switched to the status of a regular employee, which takes a thousand dollars off my paycheck every month.I need to report my earnings from last year I filed for an extension and I have barely any expenses to claim, so I will be paying a nice chunk in taxes, my accountant says that social security alone is like 3000 and another 2000 or so in taxes. Im making less per month now that taxes are getting automatically deducted and I cannot afford to pay the IRS all at once. Im already in debt with credit cards that I was going to pay off within two months or so, but now this made everything much worse. What should I do? I am really stressing over this situation, what are my options? How can this IRS thing be taken care of?  <response>: When they give you the bad news, the IRS will also give you options for paying them back. You arent the first person to ever be in this situation and the IRS understands the value of patience. They arent the evil entity theyve been in the past. They know they get nothing from throwing you in jail, and they wont take your first born child darn it!. Relax, youll be ok. 