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@abctax55 wrote:

I do have to ask.... is there a W-2 from that S-Corp ??????????????

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Of course you have to ask, where's the fun in not asking!?!  In these fly-by-night cases you also have to ask probing questions like who (if anyone) actually made an S-election?  And where did the money go?  In my experience there's a pretty good chance the S Corp was set up (well, some sort of entity anyway) and then the taxpayer continued receiving and depositing income into their own personal bank account.

But back to the OP, tell the client this is beyond your capabilities and they need to go somewhere else.  I don't take on new S Corps (I have two legacy ones) because more often than not the rules are not followed and "all of that stuff is too much trouble, I just want to keep doing it the way I've been doing it."  If you like doing what I call "janitorial services" then get a nice big retainer up front and bill for the time it takes to clean up this mess.