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welcome back to taxes made simple i'm your host carlton dennis and in today's video we're going to discuss how to pay a 1099 contractor as a business owner if you're self-employed have an llc in escort corporation and you have contractors they're going to need their 1099s prior to the end of january i need you to know if you need to send out a 1099 what happens if someone wants to not sign the w-9 and what you need to do to protect yourself if you have international employees working with you let's dive in all right guys first things first what is a 1099 contractor we just need to define that so i'm going to give you the exact definition so you never get this confused again an independent contractor is a person business or corporation that provides goods or services under a written contract or a verbal agreement it's you and another party deciding that this party is going to do a contractual work for you to get to a result most of 99 contractors are not like employees they can stipulate their own time when they do their job in the nature in which they do their job and if you're a 1099 employee then you need to know that there are certain forms that need to be signed by you prior to you filing the tax return and if you're issuing 1099s then you need to make sure you're issuing them the right way so we're going to talk about that when it comes to who receives a 1099 a 1099 is provided to any contractor that is making an excess of 600 from a business owner so if i contracted my videographer to record a couple of videos for me in the year and i'm paying over over six hundred dollars it is my duty and obligation underneath irs tax code that if he is making over 600 that i have to issue him a 1099. but many taxpayers get caught up in not issuing 1099s and here's the reason why this happens one many taxpayers are late when they find out that they actually need to send out a 1099 and then maybe the contractor that they have working as a 1099 contractor does not have social security numbers papers or green cards they're a little worried about reporting that 1099 contractors so we're going to talk about that two you just completely forget to do your 1099s because maybe you're just a taxpayer that's just running around and building business income you just never knew that you were supposed to send out to 99s so we're going to talk about that or number three maybe you're a taxpayer that has already sent out your 1099s and you don't know how to make sure that they're being filed correctly so these are three situations that we can fall into but one thing that we want to know first is is how do we get that 1099 signed by our contract so let's talk about that and now for today's sponsor numina numina is an app specifically designed for freelancers and i have a lot of affinity for this app because i work with a lot of freelancers who have a hard time getting financing for their businesses typically when you start a new business or a new llc corporation you 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channel thank you so much back to the video all right guys i get on the phone with taxpayers every single day and they are always asking me carlton i want to have this tax provider that lets me know what i need to do like i just want to be able to run the business and like the tax guy does everything but here's the thing though a lot of tax professionals are not there with you business owner when you're hiring these contractors you're talking to these contractors on various different networks like nomina if you're talking to contractors on networks and you decide to go into an agreement there's one thing that you need to make sure you do prior to you paying this contractor and i'm going to give that to you you need to have the contractor signed a w9 form here's the w9 form it's this one right here this form is the form you want to have your contractor sign and provide back to you why because when it's time for you to file to give a 1099 which is kind of like a w-2 for that employee that contractor you have to file something to provide the 1099 and this something that you're filing is the w9 form the w9 form is the form that you as a business owner should receive back prior to receiving any payment or giving any payment to any business owner to protect you the business owner underneath an irs audit i have had so many clients who have told me carlton why is it that these contractors don't give me this w-9 form back i'm stressed i know you told me i have to file my 1099s by a certain date and i'm telling them like hey man listen if you had came to me in the beginning before you decided to send out payments to these contractors you would have been told by me to not do it because i would have told you to get that w-9 form back first i'm totally cool with contractors i'm totally cool with business owners wanting to hire contractors that might be on the border of having their their full cards and full citizenship but if you are the taxpayer that does not want to get in trouble with the irs then you'll make sure you get the w9 form back it's that simple and the w9 form does require you obtaining the social security number or the ein number of the taxpayer that you are looking to pay if you're hiring contractors who are on the border of this whole citizenship thing i am letting you know right now carlton is telling you right now please be careful because at the end of the day your contractors aren't going to be the ones that are in trouble you the business owner are going to be the one that's in trouble for not providing a 1099 to your contractor in filing the 1099 by the due dates that the irs is listed will it be your contractor's fault at the end of the day you will be at fault and i want to make sure that business owners are protected because the government states you're supposed to receive the w-9 before before you even started going into a contractual agreement you should have already had the w-9 signed by the contractor that you want being contracted to do the work inside of your business so this very key important step is one step that i will constantly see business owners make a mistake out of and make a mistake out of
Thanks for your comment Kerry Majchrzak, have a nice day.
- Theodora Schwandt, Staff Member
hey everybody john dylan here from equinox home financing today i wanted to talk to you about calculating or understanding how income works if you're self-employed when trying to buy or finance a home there's all different kinds of you know situations out there for people to be self-employed so we'll start from like the different tiers as far as simplicity to complexity goes you know if you're a 1099 contractor for example and you're just a contractor independent you're self-employed because you control your hours your time could be commission based it could be service based whatever the the reason is 1099 contractors are self-employed you get a 1099 at the end of the year and then you file that on your 1040 tax returns on the form called schedule c it's your business profit and loss that would be like the easiest and most simple way to go to file taxes next step up would be having a sole proprietorship so that means that you're self-employed you may have a restaurant or a retail store or a service that you do you don't have a corporation and you're not 1089 you know you go to the county recorder's office you file what's called a fictitious business name and you get a dba dba stands for doing business as don't have a federal tax id number instead everything's tied to you personally under your social security number and in this instance whatever you generate an income you would also file on your schedule c tax return okay um same as a 1099 contractor same form on the 1040. the next and last phase is typically a llc or a corporation this gets a little bit more complex so i want to take my time to explain this number one if you have a corporation there's a couple of different ways to pay owners of the company number one if a corporation w2'd the owner as an employee you would get payroll checks consistently and w2s at the end of the year that's one form of income okay the second is every time you pay yourself non-w-2 that's called an owner's draw that means you're paying yourself money and at the end of the year the corporation would issue you a k-1 form if you got w-2 from your corporation and you took draws you now have two forms of income which would both then translate to the 1040 when you go file at the end of the year both of these forms you know well the k1 would get filed on your schedule e tax return before write-offs or whatnot these are the forms that we would be using so if you're a 1099 contractor or a sole proprietor and when you're looking to finance a mortgage or buy a home we're just looking for two years of tax returns okay 1040 tax returns that's all you need you know we don't need the 1099s we don't need to verify anything else because these are filed with the irs and you know that's what we go off of if you have a corporation we will need all your corporate tax returns for two years and two years of your 1040s for us to be able to analyze what your exact self-employed income is if you have any other questions about how to calculate that or if you need help calculating what your income should or will be give us a call today we'll be glad to help you out thank you subscribe to our channel below so you can find out more about home financing
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- Theodora Schwandt
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