Statutory Employee
For many years I worked as an engineering consultant for a company that had a contract for engineering services to a government agency. For those services I received a 1099. Last year for business reasons I agreed to let them place me on their payroll. They withheld taxes and I received a W2 for 2017. I live far from the government offices and they never offered to provide and office space. In addition, I have valid in-home office expenses and pay for expensive software in order to provide my engineering services to them. The W-2 did not have the statutory box checked which ends up negating almost all of my office expense deductions. This company said they would change me to a statutory employee this year but they are resisting sending me a revised W2 with the statutory box checked. Any advice?
