I'm sure that if you refuse to pay when the state government escalates from reminder notice to nastygram to series of phone calls all the way to "takes you to court", and you do something that indicates to a judge that you were overtly trying to shirk paying, then yes, you could go to jail.
The point is that it's not relevant to the situation at hand, because 10 months before that could ever happen, the "employer" is going to get a notice saying they owe some trivial amount of money, and they're simply going to pay it to go away. You would have to be made of stupid to end up in jail over employment taxes.
Note that you're replying both to a lawyer (in dc's case) and to someone who's dealt with this exact situation (in my case); you may want bigger guns here than a pay-per-word Demand Media article.
The point is that it's not relevant to the situation at hand, because 10 months before that could ever happen, the "employer" is going to get a notice saying they owe some trivial amount of money, and they're simply going to pay it to go away. You would have to be made of stupid to end up in jail over employment taxes.
Note that you're replying both to a lawyer (in dc's case) and to someone who's dealt with this exact situation (in my case); you may want bigger guns here than a pay-per-word Demand Media article.