Hi, I really need your help; I'm working at a restaurant, we make between 800$ to 1000$ a week with the tips, but now my boss want to get tip of us, some of us been working there over 10 years, so he's starting to use dirty and nasty way but legal to make us quit, he change the restaurant policy to a NO tip restaurant and pay us minimum wages and charge the customer 9.% of admin fee ( goes to the owner) .
So now we make less that half what we use to make,
It been 3 weeks so far with...

hi everyone;

we settled out side court with my former employer for overtime and harassment, so I will get total 10000$. the lawyer fee is 4000$, do I have to pay for his taxes or I only pay 6000$ for my taxes??
what are the options? do I get to choose how to get pay using W2 form or 1099?? I ask because if I get pay with w2 the employer probably tax me the whole amount of 10000$. also the othe question is can me and my lawyer request my former employer to write 2 different...