Hi all,

My situation is thus. There are periods of my past employment where I worked under the table (for family construction business and also while doing part-time child care). I didn't pay income taxes or file returns for those years. Currently I'm applying for a government job that takes issue with such behavior, so I intend to file returns for those past years as well as pay the owed income tax.

What I'm hoping to get some advice on is which forms I would need to submit to file for these past years. Since I don't have W2 forms from my employers for those periods, would I need to file a 4852 W2 Substitute form? If I do file those forms, would the families that I provided childcare for receive a penalty?

Any and all advice is much appreciated. Let me know if I can clarify anything. Thanks!