Employer requesting to be reimbursed for old fica taxes.
My husband worked as a contractor for 2 years and we would pay our own taxes in installmentsto the IRS ourselves. The state of CA then required the employer to reclassify them as employees for 2005 . They were reclassified as employees in September 2005 but the employer paid his share of ss and medicare for the entire year and so we were given a w2 for the whole of 2005 although we only had fica taxes withheld from September till the end of December. We did our taxes on Taxcut and received a refund. It did not recalculate that we still owed fica taxes from January till September and so we were unaware.
We have now received a letter from the ex-employers accountants stating that he has been audited and that the IRS had requested the extra fica to be paid either through him or auditing us. We have not heard from the IRS directly. We have now been put in a situation owing a large sum of money which if the employer had made us aware of when my husband was working for him we would have made alternate arrangements when he changed his wages drastically to account for being an employee instead of an independent contractor. Should we pay or wait for the IRS to contact us?