Trucking Tax Issue

[rollinon]

I have 3 years worth of tax to file, have considered myself self employed until recently I found out that I should not of been, my employer should of been taking deductions off me all along.....what is the best case scenario to approach this situation. I am a professional driver. My employer owns the truck I drive, it is leased on to a company. All I can see now to get me out of the the red abit is to claim the fair meal allowance for meal expenses and some office expenses, other than that does anyone have any other suggestions?

[BobW]

If you were self employed, you should still have been filing your taxes and paying them. So, the fact that no deductions were taken doesn't really matter if you had thought you were self employed.

On the bright side, the employer should have to contribute half of your CPP payments and UIC payments. On the dark side, a lot of deductions that you may have been entitled to as self employed are going to go away.

I'd find a professional and let them get it straightened out. You probably have enough tax issues stacked up between three years behind and the self employed thing that no mere citizen would have a hope of getting it figured out to your advantage.

[Rembrandt100]

Best case senario for you would be if the taxman declared your so-called employer a tax cheat. He has been working a scam on the gov. If you collect a high % of you income from a single source you are deemed an employee of that source. His fines could be all of the deductions that should have been made X 2. 1 of those X 2 will be credited to your account as per your income from that source. If the taxman says that you are entilted to the meal deductions you will get them. But if you paid for the fuel for the 3 years you may have to eat that expence.

I had a friend that this happened to and he came out smelling like a rose. Company closed tho.

Dave