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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A former coworker of mine once learned that his company was shutting down because the office was raided by FBI agents who seized all the computers, servers and company documents. Everybody sat around in the empty office for a little while and then went home, and nobody ever got paid or heard from the company ever again. Even the tax documents at the end of the year didn't get sent out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What did he have to do without the tax documents?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know exactly. There's some process you go through with the IRS to find out what you were paid and how much was withheld in situations like this where the company just goes out of existence suddenly. The IRS has all that info anyway because companies withhold and submit the taxes (at least while they still exist).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, they're supposed to, anyway.