My tax lawyer formed an S-corp for me and then apparently left town. Haven’t been able to get an answer about how I pay myself and when, how, and where I send the taxes. Or about these idle questions:

Do you have to pay yourself on a monthly or semimonthly basis? Or are you allowed to pay your “wages” quarterly or yearly?

If you pay yourself (this assumes you have no other employees) more often than once a year–say, monthly or quarterly–does the corporation have to send in the FICA and other taxes each time a paycheck is disbursed? How? Where?

And…uhm… This is going to sound stupid, but given the amazingly stupid stuff I’ve encountered in trying to figure out Medicare and Social Security, “stupid” may be the order of the day. So here goes: there’s a law that says you have to prove each employee is a US citizen. Do I the corporation’s employee have to prove to me the corporation’s director that I was born in the USA? Is there some government agency where I have to depose that my employee (me) is a citizen? What will happen if I just say, should I be challenged, that I’ve seen my birth certificate and believe it to be authentic?