<prompt> Human: I work for a small company and my boss is incompetent.When I started he kept saying he was going to set me up with payroll but for the first 4 months I worked there he did everything in house and wire transferred me my pay, often times 5-7 days late.Each checks net pay is different although I am supposed to be payed a salary. And I repeatedly asked for pay stubs to try and figure this out and never got any. Turns out some weeks he was taking out cali tax, other times NJ I live in NYLow and behold its tax season and when I got my w-2 it says I made apx 4000 less than I actually did. I imagine he was pocketing the taxes withheld before I was set up with the payroll company.He has been giving me the runaround for months, talking to this guy is like talking to a brick wall. He is constantly blaming everything on the payroll company even though the issues I am having clearly fall on him.I asked him about it and all he can say is thats weird or we really need to switch to a new payroll company. This week he emailed me saying he could give me a 1099 for the difference and I could make up a bunch of expenses to cover my taxes. Considering I already payed taxes on that money and dont plan on taking on his tax liability I told him that was not going to work and that I wanted to know what happened to the money he withheld.To give you another idea of this guys incompetenceshadyness, one of my employees had been asking for paystubs for months and when I confronted my boss firmly he told me that since employee x was part time he gets a 1099 and apparently hadnt been withholding taxes from his checks even though I sent him this kids w4 a week before he started. Once I got everything rectified this kid basically worked a month for free to cover his taxes.I know I need a new job and I am looking but does anyone have any idea what my recourse is? Frankly I have no idea how much they are reporting on their end and after plugging in what I believe to be the correct numbers in turbo tax my refund went up substantially.Beyond Frustrating tl;dr-Boss is incompetent.-Several months of taxes withheld unaccounted for. thinking he might have pocketed them-w2 4000 off  <response>: Report him 