 Does software company like "Tipalti" has authority to check if the SSN is valid?
On Distrokid I had to submit my tax documents in order to withdraw money from them. Because I use ⊗⊗⊗⊗ name on that account I used autogenerated SSN for submitting those docs but it was rejected "We failed to validate the SSN you filled on your submitted W9 tax form".
But how they know if the SSN is valid without asking to send the photos of the document? For example for PayPal you can also use autogenerated SSN, but then they ask to send the proof - the photos of the document.
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