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I read the news saying IRS won the lawsuit in CA and will start ask Paypal to give them the seller information...

Does anyone know about this thing and any solution to avoid leaking info to IRS?
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Vote Ron Paul for president and he'll do away with the IRS. problem solved.
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HI- NO matter if they get the info or not, We have PLENTY of write offs to off set the income anyhow... (How many hours spent on this forum for research related to your business )?
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Won't they need out SS #'s for that?

I have never given them mine.
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If this is the case... I doubt that the IRS needed to take Paypal to court inorder to begin to screw over its users... It would be more like Paypal taking the IRS to court. Paypal would never stick up for its users or what not.... Paypal is more like the kinda company that would do what ever it can to screw over its users... I would compare Paypal to a rabid dog, biting the hand of his owner.

In other words... if the Paypal needed to be taken to court over the protection of its user... that would be the first time and only time that would happen
Nah Paypal doesnt want to do this because it means less money for them. If the IRS starts requiring they turn over info that means they have to start having real security on the website (money), people who can actually help customers (more money), and a resolution department that doesnt just send emails (more money). They would actually have to start taking responsibility for transactions and not just throwing up their hands and saying look we only took a payment.

Its the same thing with ebay and why they dont want the irs to know what peole are selling because they just wanna throw up their hands and go look guys we cant help you we are only an auction site.
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Hey guys been a while, I been using this card works great, but it requires my social when registering for it t.t. Anyways do they report to the irs how much I make? On the registration part like others it is used to see if you are a real person with the social\Im pretty much a full time student. Just wondering before I file it and something goes bad on me =o. Thanks in advance. (i know its kinda late to file also) t.t !!

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They only report when they send you a 1099 form.

If they don't send you anything, they're not reporting.

I learned that from Modee.
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Well I got a 1099-DIV for like 17 dollars. So basicly report all my income I made from paypal to the irs n pay the taxes correct? This is from the paypal money market fund. Thanks in advance again!

That would be from january to december right?
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HI:
I recd the same form for 4 of my pp accts for last year, i just give those to my acct, along with the other 1099's from the banks, he knows what to do with them..

BTW- any stock losses will offset the gains earned in interest..
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needing a social security number for a credit/debit card and having to use real information with the post office is due to the patriot act in an attempt to keep terrorists from using credit/debit cards to transfer money
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Okay Modee, question for you. Since Paypal isn't reporting money going through your accounts. When you withdraw that money, and it goes to your bank account, do you report that money then? Thats what I've been doing for the past few years. I just report that money as income.

Could I get away with not reporting that money? I have a feeling I'm going to be audited this year because I have tons of 1099 forums from different affiliate companies, and what I've heard is the IRS tends to audit people with multiple streams of income. Should I risk Paypal?

Or we don't have to report all money going into our checking accounts?
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i would think that if you are audited the irs will have easy access to your bank statements, and see that you did or did not report all income coming through the account.

also i thought there were new laws just recently passed that would allow the government to have access to all paypal income. they are trying to catch people from the US who deposit money from their paypal into overseas banking accounts. if the government asked, then paypal would have to fork over your information.
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needing a social security number for a credit/debit card and having to use real information with the post office is due to the patriot act in an attempt to keep terrorists from using credit/debit cards to transfer money
man thats such bs. its just to keep regular people in check. if a terrorist really needs money, he's not going to go use a western union transfer.
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i knew that the new laws were for overseas transactions, but i thought it would also aply to all accounts. i wasn't sure, guess i was wrong.

and that's what i meant about the bank account statements. if they ask for them you better come up with them.

and i really don't think someone is going argue to the IRS that the thousands of dollars coming in from paypal is all going to their business costs and you're just breaking even. especially if this is your sole income, and you do not have a job. it's pretty hard to explain how that person would be able to afford their, house, cars, credit card, payments, etc... granted some of the house, and cars can be written off as work related expenses, but not all. i have read before that if your stated income does not reflect close to the amount of what kind of house you can afford then a red flag will be raised to the IRS.

and yes, i aggree that you can get away with most anything you want, but if the audit ever comes then the person should have tons of info to back up the moves they've made.
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no im just speaking if claiming things like your overhead cost. i'm not incorporated. i file self-employed, so that by it's self puts me at higher risk for being audited. then if my numbers do not look correct, or seem too low for what i own then they gives me an even greater chance of being audited.

and me personally i prefer to claim as much as i can because without a proveable income you can't get too far. couldn't buy houses, cars, etc...
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Thanks, thats what I thought.

The money I withdraw is all my profit. Any cost are withdrawn to supplier banking accounts. And I just claim what I withdraw. Weird setup. :o



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twdell, no, you're wrong. That new rule about PayPal applies only to PayPal accounts where the funds are transferred directly overseas, such as to offshore (foreign) accounts. We already went into this in a thread on this forum:
http://www.aspkin.com/forums/paypal-...aypal-now.html

twdell, you're also wrong about the IRS having direct access to your bank accounts. You may think it works that way, but not quite.

Aspkin, basically, you can get away with whatever, but if you are audited, you will be asked to provide banking statements and so on, and if they do not jibe with your tax returns, then you would be in trouble and at a minimum owe back taxes and penalties. At that point, if you refused to provide the bank accounts and the IRS could show probable cause, they could subpoena your bank accounts, but it's really not as easy as it seems and they would do that only in a full blown probe.

The way the IRS works more typically is they just propose that you owe a certain amount of tax, and challenge you to dispute it. If you do not dispute, then they enter a federal tax lien if necessary for that amount. Of course, they estimate that tax and penalty so that it will be higher than the reality. If they really think that you got away with murder, and they can't even make a guaranteed (for them) highball estimate, they might take the drastic action I describe above - with the subpoenas and so on. And the deeper you get into it with them, and the more conflict between what you reported and what they unearth - the more chance the probe will end up criminal, which is why you don't want to give them any ⊗⊗⊗⊗ documents of course.

Aspkin, also, the amount of money that transfers from PP to your bank account is not income is it? I mean, you must have cost of goods and expenses to deduct against that.
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when submitting your tax forms you can deduct the interest paid on your house, and the taxes. by that amount you claim i would assume that, like you said, with the computer fomula they can tell that, hey this guy cannot afford a $300,000 house. he claimed his net income was $15,000.

i have always assumed that their system is like ebay and paypal. there really isn't too many people analizing everything you do, but they are alerted by a computer that says you should be looked into more closely.

yeah, thats' what i try to do, is be truthful on the returns. i'm too paranoid not to.
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I know the banks report single deposits over 10 or 12k somthing like that to the IRS I made that mistake once.
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xxxxrod, the magical figure in the USA is US $10,000 and in Australia it is AU $10,000.

Not sure if any of the poms would ever have any spare money so I
can not say what their amount might be. LOL.
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what do people whos paypal accounts got suspended do, where you can't even log in to see your transactions...and you are audited and must prove every single penny.
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i think that's why you're supposed to have paper copies of everything. i'm guilty of it too. it's hard to keep up with printing out all statements though.
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how far back does paypal let you print out statements?
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