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March 6, 2025
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One of my employers used my social security number instead of my corporate EIN. Do I need to change that?

  • March 6, 2025
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    March 6, 2025

    If you are an employee, you are an individual and your employer would need to use your Social Security Number, they cannot use a corporate EIN.  

    A corporate EIN is only used for the corporation, not the individual. If you are saying a customer used your SSN instead of your EIN, what type of corporation do you have?  LLC, S-Corp, or C-Corp? Please provide more details if this is the situation. 

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    Employee
    March 6, 2025

    If you are self-employed, you don't have "employers", you have clients or customers.  If one of your clients issued a 1099-NEC with your personal SSN instead of your EIN, that is probably not a problem, since your EIN is linked to your SSN in the IRS records.  You would just report the income as normal business income for the business, not as personal income.