1099 with no social security or information?

Question

Can i file a 1099 for a past employee if i dont have her social security number or address? All i have is her phone number and she refuses to give me her information.

Answer 1

Before she started working for u, u shld have gotten that info..Before ne get hired at any place, that the first thing they ask for ur SS#..I dont think u can now go back and try to file a 1099 if u never had a record in the first places of taxes that u were withholding on money paid to her..Next time get the information up front..She is not obligated to give u her info now that she is not working for u..

Answer 2

Do you understand that if you don't file the 1099, the IRS won't allow you the deduction for the money paid.

And when you do file, since you won't have all the info, the IRS can hold you accountable for an additional 28% as backup withholding.

Answer 3

No you will now have to eat those taxes. What I mean is you will now have to pay taxes on what she made. Sorry, I know this is not what you wanted to hear. My cousin just went through the same thing.

They did learn a huge leason though. Don't hire without all personal info.

Answer 4

no - you need to secure that info before you give a person the first payment - go to anywho.com and enter her phone number - her address may come up in system - you can try and file with just that = you're several months late  for 2007 and will owe penalties if this is for 2007

Answer 5

You need to contact IRS so that you don't get in trouble with them.  Can you put her phone number in the "reverse name and address search" and find her address that way?

http://www.phoneaddressdirectory.com/

Answer 6

You should have got that info when she started working for you.  Now that she is gone she may not relent and give you the info even though she is required to.  All the talk about identity theft, she is maybe just being careful to keep her SSN under wraps.

I would send her a W-9.  It is an IRS form that asks for a taxpayer tax id number (ssn or itin for individual, ein for other) and if she reads the instructions on it, she will see it is required.

Answer 7

No she got to you.