Long story short, I was involved with an issue regarding a porn company. I did work for them, but then realized after the fact that the company does porn and I did not want to associate myself with that. All earnings that I got were returned and I have a record of that. Later down the road, I get a message about filing a tax with the IRS. I contacted the guy and originally told me that he will fix it. Then he called the next day and told me he can’t. I have no choice but to pay it. I am a senior study engineering in college. I plan to work at L3 and that would require a security clearance. I am a student at OSU.
Will filing this form to the IRS hurt my chances at obtaining security clearances? I would qualify every other section. I don’t know any people outside the US, I have no criminal record, I don’t drink or smoke weed.
Did you do anything illegal? If you did not, then you shouldn’t have a problem.
I’m assuming that the company sent you a W-2 or 1099. Neither says what the company does (unless the name of the company is “USA S&M Porn Inc.”) or what you did for them.
From whom did you get a message about filing with the IRS?
Did the porn company give you a 1099 or W2 form for the year(s) you worked for them and, if so, did the company correctly reflect your actual pay if you gave them money back (e.g. they paid you $1000 and you gave back $1000, so you should have $0 to report).
Bottom line - if you earned money, whether it was reported by the employer to the IRS or not, you should certainly file it as income on your tax return for the year it was earned, less any money you gave back. If your income was actually $0, you are generally not required to file (refer to IRS guidelines for no-income tax filings).
This does not sound like a security clearance issue as long as the porn company you worked for was legit (Porn is legal in the US as long as it doesn’t involve minors). You would need to include it in your employment history.
You can’t just “give money back”. The company would have to agree to except the return of wages and record it as such. I’m not even sure how they would do that.
As I said earlier, there are not records that show what the company does and what you did for them. Unless you were involved in criminal activity, there’s nothing here.
Due to a payroll error, I was once given 2x what my bonus should have been. I notified my boss the payroll office. I had to write them a personal check for the excess. My W2 for that tax year correctly stated the earnings without that excess payment, too.
In the case of the OP, if the company agreed to take it back then they can also adjust the tax record - if they were even paying him in a way that would let them do that.
If he was working “under the table”, for basically cash or a check, that’s not illegal for the OP as long has he still reports the earnings. In this case, he would have 0 income and have nothing to report on taxes for this particular job.
OP has been quiet, however, so I’m not sure we’ll ever find out any more details.
