<prompt> Human: In 2011, I did work for a man out of his home business. I ended up working for him about 30-40 hours a week, and he paid me about 16k by the end of the year. I had another job in the daytime, and was taking classes.When I first worked for him, it was going to be a night or two, and we didnt fill out a W4. When he asked me to work full time, we started tracking my hours, and he said hed sort it out with his tax man.Meanwhile, his wife had surgery, his other projects were hitting huge problems and losing him money, and the only conversations we had involved him yelling and ranting, and telling me I was like his therapist. A crazy work enviroment, but he seemed in genuine crisis.When it was time to file my 2011 taxes, he was evasive and told me that he was not supposed to have employees because he wasnt paying insurance. I have never misfiled taxes, but I took what I felt was a hint and bad advice from other friends and filed my taxes on april 14th without reporting that income, because I was afraid of getting him in trouble. He kept promising to sort it out on his end, and I figured I could file an adjustment later.On april 15th, he called and said he was with his tax man, and asked for my SSN. I gave it to him without thinking twice. That evening, he gave me a 1099. When I made my adjustment, I found that I would owe about 1900, including refunding my refund. My car had just broken down, I was stressed between two jobs, classes and a social media consultant kind of girlfriend, and I told him that he would need to pay that difference. He said he would if I would come back to work for him afterwards. We shook hands, and I took overtime hours at my day job.Between my frustration and my girlfriends unexpected success and end of her financial dependency on me our relationship of 7 years ended later that year. I took a cool job just before in an attempt to not drift away from her just before, which paid a little less but gave me more reasonable hours and let me do something I was passionate about, but she left me with two months of rent and bills to pay on a house we could only comfortably afford together. I took more hours, I downsized, got an itty bitty apartment, and started trying to pay off my debts, starting with school and then the taxes owed. That Christmas, I was hospitalized, having been found in the middle of a city out of my mind another story... short version, cops assumed I was drunk, took me to hospital, was clinically sober, assumed to have head injury or been roofied.At this point, I gave up. I was still getting over my ex, now drowning in hospital bills on top of the tax issues, missed a cable bill I had forgotten to close when I moved... I just stopped thinking about it. I took on a position in sales within my company, and just put all my energy into hitting it big. However, invoicing less hours in my other role just ended up making me less money in the long run. I ended 2013 exactly where I started.I started 2014 with my car throwing a rod. I scrambled, borrowed cars from friends, moved in with a new girlfriend, and bought a decent seeming used car from a friend. Two months later, the transmission failed. I didnt even bother filing my 2013 taxes, because at the time I didnt want to pay the 40 odd in taxes owed, figuring I was just around the corner from finding a used car and may need every cent...I am done running from emergency to emergency.I have a car again, I dropped the sales schemes, I realize now that I will never find some magic bullet to fix everything, and I need to start making payments and pulling myself up, starting with the taxes.I dont know where to start. Do I talk with an agent from the IRS? Am I at legal risk for basically accepting a 1099 for work that was not contract work? I make 10 per hour, 40 hojrs per week plus reimbursements of .5 per mile I drive plus expenses usually around 500 per month- would I have reasonable means to even pay this off plus my hospital debts?  <response>: Wow, I feel for you. I suspect that utaxmankeith will tell you to meet with the IRS. Do you have an idea of a monthly payment you can afford to make to them consistently? They will work with you, but you need to be in a position to enter into a payment plan and not default on it. 