Something like that. The first job I ever had outside of waiting tables turned out to be a really shady guy. I had no idea, blah, blah. Anyhoo, I had 2.5 years of making a lot of money, he told us taxes and everything were taken out of our checks, but he always gave us hand written ones. He also said he had a company accountant that would do all of our taxes each year. I left to a different company and never thought twice about it. Turned out he got busted for loan fraud and tax evasion and told the auditors he had 1099'd us all the whole time. So asshole was taking the taxes out when he paid us, pocketed them, and never filed for us. Then he said we never paid our taxes. So we all got fucked for the full amount of our commissions for 2+ years plus penalties, plus interest. My bill was $150K+ when I first started paying.
Good shit.