Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas ...

As a small-business owner, if you contract to perform services, you must fill out a Form W-9 for each person with whom you contract. Your client will use this form when accounting for payments made to ...

A single-member disregarded limited liability company (LLC) is an organization that has elected -- in terms of filing status with the state and federal government -- not to be recognized as a ...

If you have a business, you may need to fill out IRS Form W-9 Katharine Paljug is a financial writer and editor with over a decade of industry experience. Her writing has covered nearly every aspect ...

The basics The W9 form -- Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification -- is an IRS form, but not one you send to the IRS. Instead, you typically get one from a business that will be ...

Is there a way to complete the W9 form that is technically legal that will avoid being 1099'd for income paid to you? No, not legally. The rules about when a form 1099 must be issued are pretty clear ...