Tax Day is approaching, and soon it will be time to begin assembling forms. If you haven't looked at them yet, all those numbers and letters – W-2, W-9, 1099 – can easily overwhelm you. Some forms are ...

Tax Day is coming, and soon it will be time to begin gathering forms. If you haven't looked at them yet, all those numbers and letters – W-2, W-9, 1099 – can easily overwhelm. Some forms are ...

Some forms are pre-populated and designed for you to pass on to the IRS. They may have arrived in your mailbox or be sitting in a "tax documents" portal on a website, awaiting download. In theory, ...

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Small-business owners commonly make or receive payments that must be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Many of these payments are reported using Form 1099-MISC. To fill out this form, though, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. This “backup withholding” at 24% is the usual consequence of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. This article is more than 5 years old. Before paying you, many ...

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Employers who pay independent contractors for work that is not paid through their payrolls do not take out deductions. The contractors file their own taxes and make the payments. As a result, ...

At tax time, employees will get a form that shows how much they earned the previous year from each company they worked for. But some will get a W-2 form, and some will get a 1099-NEC form. So what’s ...

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