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Same people will complain about not being able to live on Social Security benefits. Oh, is that the Karma Bus coming down the You-Did-It-To-Yourself Road?

+1 I also had a person bickering about how much taxes they had to pay and this is BS and they are an employee and so on, I said fine, I'll prepare a special form to let the IRS know what's going and you might lose your job..... The person had no problem paying the tax.

Terry: You do have the correct plan to eliminate S/E tax by about $140, plus associated penalties/interest. Maybe a total of just under $200 total savings. The Form 8919 will probably work, and nothing will come of it due to the relatively small amounts involved. However, there's also the possibility that the IRS will contact the employer. Your niece worked there for two years, but can we assume that she isn't working there now and has no intention of doing so in the future? I ask that because if the IRS does follow up with an inquiry to the employer, that will probably end any future opportunities for her to work there in any capacity. I've had this sort of situation in the past, and when I posed that question to the taxpayer, they decided they didn't want to burn any bridges just to save a couple of hundred dollars. (minus my fee in those cases, but the decision was based mainly on the desire not to burn any bridges)