Does filling out a W-4 make one into an “employee”, and ones pay into “wages”, or amount to a voluntary election to be treated as an “employee” (and having ones pay treated as “wages”)?
A. The completion and submission of a W-4 doesn’t make someone not engaging in taxable activities into someone who is (nor does it constitute an election to be so treated as though one were engaged in such activities). After all, filling out a W-4 doesn’t constitute the completion of a federally-connected civil service application or an oath of office, or becoming an officer of a federal or federally-controlled corporation… Thus, for one who is not actually an “employee” the completion of the form must be presumed to be entirely prospective in nature, providing in advance for the theoretical possibility (however remote) that one’s relationship with the company to which one presents the form might somehow become that of “employer” and “employee” at some unknown point in the future (while otherwise being legally irrelevant). Whether or not such a theoretically-possible change actually takes place at any point is reflected in the content of one’s filing concerning each past year. That s
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