IRS Warns Americans To Report Annual PayPal, Venmo Transactions Exceeding $600 Per Year
IRS Warns Americans To Report Annual PayPal, Venmo Transactions Exceeding $600 Per Year
BY TYLER DURDEN SUNDAY, NOV 27, 2022 - 06:00 PM
The Internal Revenue Service is warning Americans that they
need to prepare to report transactions of at least $600 per year through
'third-party' payment processors such as Venmo and PayPal.
In
a notice posted Tuesday to irs.gov,
businesses and the self-employed are warned that cumulative income of at least
$600 per year through apps - which also include Zelle and Cash App - will need
to be reported on a tax form known as 1099-K, according to Marketwatch.
According to the agency, the notice is primarily aimed at
part-time workers, those with side-gigs and people selling goods. It
does not apply to non-commercial
transactions such as reimbursing people, or one-off transactions such as
selling old furniture, Marketwatch reports.
That said - considering that the 3rd party providers
are going to start
reporting transactions exceeding $600, how will the
IRS know you're selling 'old furniture' versus, say, sweaters made out of cat
hair on Ebay?
Before
this year, the threshold for filing a Form 1099-K report was at least 200
transactions totaling an aggregate of at least $20,000.
When
Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, it included a provision that reduced the reporting threshold to a
single transaction over $600.
The Biden
administration hopes that by reducing the threshold, the measure will crack down
on Americans evading taxes by not reporting the full extent of their gross
income. -MarketWatch
In short, this will undoubtedly raise taxes on people making
under $400,000 per year.
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