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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: Why would they send a 1099 ?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 22:58:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.225801.14436@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan28.214749.22155@dsd.es.com>
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- In article <1993Jan28.214749.22155@dsd.es.com> danderso@bambam.es.com (Derek Anderson) writes:
- > Here's a question I wonder if someone out there could answer for
- >me. Last year (1992) I sold some used computer equipment and shipped it
- >COD through an air freight company. A few days ago my wife gets a phone
- >call from the shipping company, asking for my SS number. She asks them
- >why and was told that in 1992 they had paid me $x.xx for some COD's and
- >that by law I had to claim that on my taxes. They needed my SS number so
- >they could send in their 1099 forms.
- > It seems like the buyer made the check out to the shipping
- >company and then the shipping company made me a check. I guess I just
- >don't understand why the shipping company would be sending in a 1099 for
- >the sale of some used computer equipment that I didn't even sell to
- >them. Could someone enlighten me?
-
- From what you've written, sounds like you don't have to give them
- any SS #.
-
- If you already have your money, in fact, you could just walk away.
-
- Perhaps they consider you to be an independent contractor who
- contracts your services to the shipping company, but it seems too
- farfetched to be valid. If it were me, I'd ignore that request and
- thell them SS#s are very private and they have not demonstrated any
- qualified exception.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
-