1099-NEC wants Payer EIN, but I provided TIN (which the form says is fine!)

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@ yelvischesley wrote:

I got a 1099-NEC from my side gig as a musician. My drummer manages the books and the form includes his TIN. Turbo tax is asking me for his EIN, but I can see on the form they are telling me to fill out that it will accept either an EIN or an SSN. Any way around this?

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TIN is a generic term that includes SSN, EIN, ITIN, etc.  On a generic 1099-NEC there is a box that shows "Payer's TIN".   If the Payer has an EIN for their business purposes, they would enter an EIN there.  If the Payer uses SSN for their business purpose, they would have entered an SSN there.    If you can't tell from the format example below what your Payer has, you can ask the Payer/drummer if it is an SSN or EIN.

TurboTax should ask you to choose a format in order for the field requirements to change from EIN to SSN or vice versa.

EIN usually has this format: ##-#######

SSN usually has this format:  ###-##-####

There’s a field that says federal holding amount, make sure the field is empty, no 0s