Your W-9s Are Telling You More Than You Think

A W-9 tells you whether a resource gets a 1099, who the check should be made payable to, and which name belongs on the form. Most of that gets missed because nobody is taught to read one. Here is what to look at and how to store it so you can report on it.

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Your W-9s Are Telling You More Than You Think

A W-9 answers more questions than most people realize. Whether this resource gets a 1099. Whose name goes on it. Who the check should be made out to. All of it is on the form, and most of it gets missed because reading a W-9 properly is not something anyone is taught. A huge number of the W-9s and 1099s moving through this industry are quietly wrong, and nobody notices because nothing visibly breaks.

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What line 1 and line 2 are each actually for
How to know who the check should be made payable to
The LLC box that is almost always filled in wrong, and the two-number mistake
How to store the data when your operating system has no field for it

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