If this has been asked, my apologies for asking again.
My husband has been with a company for approximately a year. He found out today (Sept 8 2016) that his boss is shutting down the company, which is an otr truck driving company, and when my husband questioned his boss about w-2s and taxes, his boss blatantly said he hadn't held back the taxes he was withholding from pay checks. On my husbands check stubs it shows taxes being taken out and my husband filled out a w-4 . So finding out his boss basically has no money to turn into the IRS at the end of the year has both me and my husband worried. My question is who will get penalized for the employer not having the tax money and what is our best course of action? His employer owes us $8900 in back paychecks and miscellaneous other things also. It's a big mess to say the lease... Thank you for any help!