[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 12]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR1.1402(g)-1]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.1402(g)-1  Treatment of certain remuneration erroneously reported 
as net earnings from self-employment.

    (a) General rule. If an amount is erroneously paid as self-
employment tax, for any taxable year ending after 1954 and before 1962, 
with respect to remuneration for service (other than service described 
in section 3121(b)(8)(A)) performed in the employ of an organization 
described in section 501(c)(3) and exempt from income tax under section 
501(a), and if such remuneration is reported as self-employment income 
on a return filed on or before the due date prescribed for filing such 
return (including any extension thereof), the individual who paid such 
amount (or a fiduciary acting for such individual or his estate, or his 
survivor (within the meaning of section 205(c)(1)(C) of the Social 
Security Act)), may request that such remuneration be deemed to 
constitute net earnings from self-employment. If such request is filed 
during the period September 14, 1960, to April 16, 1962, inclusive, and 
on or after the date on which the organization which paid such 
remuneration to such individual for services performed in its employ has 
filed, pursuant to section 3121(k), a certificate waiving exemption from 
taxes under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, and if no credit or 
refund of any portion of the amount erroneously paid for such taxable 
year as self-employment tax (other than a credit or refund which would 
be allowable if such tax were applicable with respect to such 
remuneration) has been obtained before the date on which such request is 
filed or, if obtained, the amount credited or refunded (including any 
interest under section 6611) is repaid on or before such date, then, for 
purposes of the Self-Employment Contributions Act of 1954 and the 
Federal Insurance Contributions Act, any amount of such remuneration 
which is paid to such individual before the calendar quarter in which 
such request is filed (or before the succeeding quarter if such 
certificate first becomes effective with respect to services performed 
by such individual in such succeeding quarter) and with respect to which 
no tax (other than an amount erroneously paid as tax) has been paid 
under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, shall be deemed to 
constitute net earnings from self-employment and not remuneration for 
employment. If the certificate filed by such organization pursuant to 
section

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3121(k) is not effective with respect to services performed by such 
individual on or before the first day of the calendar quarter in which 
the request is filed, then, for purposes of section 3121(b)(8)(B) (ii) 
and (iii), such individual shall be deemed to have become an employee of 
such organization (or to have become a member of a group, described in 
section 3121(k)(1)(E), of employees of such organization) on the first 
day of the succeeding quarter.
    (b) Request for validation. (1) No particular form is prescribed for 
making a request under paragraph (a) of this section. The request should 
be in writing, should be signed and dated by the person making the 
request, and should indicate clearly that it is a request that, pursuant 
to section 1402(g) of the Code, remuneration for service described in 
section 3121(b)(8) (other than service described in section 
3121(b)(8)(A)) erroneously reported as self-employment income for one or 
more specified years be deemed to constitute net earnings from self-
employment and not remuneration for employment. In addition, the 
following information shall be shown in connection with the request:
    (i) The name, address, and social security account number of the 
individual with respect to whose remuneration the request is made.
    (ii) The taxable year or years (ending after 1954 and before 1962) 
to which the request relates.
    (iii) A statement that the remuneration was erroneously reported as 
self- employment income on the individual's return for each year 
specified and that the return was filed on or before its due date 
(including any extension thereof).
    (iv) Location of the office of the district director with whom each 
return was filed.
    (v) A statement that no portion of the amount erroneously paid by 
the individual as self-employment tax with respect to the remuneration 
has been credited or refunded (other than a credit or refund which would 
have been allowable if the tax had been applicable with respect to the 
remuneration); or, if a credit or refund of any portion of such amount 
has been obtained, a statement identifying the credit or refund and 
showing how and when the amount credited or refunded, together with any 
interest received in connection therewith, was repaid.
    (vi) The name and address of the organization which paid the 
remuneration to the individual.
    (vii) The date on which the organization filed a waiver certificate 
on Form SS-15, and the location of the office of the district director 
with whom it was filed.
    (viii) The date on which the certificate became effective with 
respect to services performed by the individual.
    (ix) If the request is made by a person other than the individual to 
whom the remuneration was paid, the name and address of that person and 
evidence which shows the authority of such person to make the request.
    (2) The request should be filed with the district director of 
internal revenue with whom the latest of the returns specified in the 
request pursuant to subparagraph (1)(iii) of this paragraph was filed.
    (c) Cross references. For regulations relating to section 3121 
(b)(8) and (k), see Sec. Sec. 31.3121(b)(8)-2 and 31.3121(k)-1 of 
subpart B of part 31 of this chapter (Employment Tax Regulations). For 
regulations relating to exemption from income tax of an organization 
described in section 501(c)(3), see Sec. 1.501(c)(3)-1.