Has anyone Received a 1099 from Automotive Insights?

Has anyone received a 1099 from Automotive Insights? I did a bunch of shops for them last year and have not received a 1099. I should be getting one since I went over 600.00. I tried to call there and the phone just rang and rang with no voicemail or anything.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2019 12:47AM by shopadam.

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I can't believe no one has responded? Did anyone do shops for them this year?

I think that they got bought out my another MSC?

I did one shop for them in 2018, and they cancelled another one a few days before I was due to complete it. They still have shops listed on their Prophet job board.

Edited to add: I just looked at the listed shops. They all have due dates of last November. Very odd. I also found some shops listed that were due i 2013 and 2016. At minimum, they are doing a poor job with their job board.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/16/2019 06:56PM by myst4au.

Summit Scheduling was scheduling shops for Automotive Insights last year. Maybe you could contact Celeste or Angela with Summit and see if they know anything.

I did not get a 1099 from them either.

When were they supposed to be sent out?

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I'm not sure what to do since this has never happened to me with any other company that I worked for. I don't want to put in the income and expenses and have it questioned. I'm wondering if it is worth leaving it off my return and then if I have to...amend my return? Anyone else have a thought?

I am interpreting your post o=correctly, you did get paid and you did have expenses. You just have not gotten a 1099. You are responsible for reporting all income to the IRS. If this had occurred to me, I would report the income and expenses. If they later sent me a 1099, I could either amend the return or wait to be audited. Either way, I would have reported the income and paid any required taxes.

@shopadam wrote:

I'm not sure what to do since this has never happened to me with any other company that I worked for. I don't want to put in the income and expenses and have it questioned. I'm wondering if it is worth leaving it off my return and then if I have to...amend my return? Anyone else have a thought?

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

Thanks. I have not done my taxes yet because I was waiting to get this 1099. I have the exact amount I made and the mileage.

I heard from the company today and they are not required to send out 1099's since they pay by Paypal. They said Paypal does not have to send one out unless you make over $20,000. I guess this solves the fact that Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

@shopadam wrote:

I heard from the company today and they are not required to send out 1099's since they pay by Paypal. They said Paypal does not have to send one out unless you make over $20,000. I guess this solves the fact that Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

Huh?

This is true. I had forgotten to consider that they pay via PayPal. For a number of years, PayPal has only been required by the IRS to send out a 1099-K if you receive at least $20,000 (gross) and have at least 200 payments through PayPal. This has come up in other years, but I think this is the first time this rule has surfaced in this Forum this year. Here is a link that explains it: [www.paypal.com]

@shopadam wrote:

I heard from the company today and they are not required to send out 1099's since they pay by Paypal. They said Paypal does not have to send one out unless you make over $20,000. I guess this solves the fact that Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

Thank you for the clarification. I recall seeing that somewhere. But it still does not explain how it is a fact Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

By IRS regulation, the reporting responsibility is transferred to PayPal. I think that is another reason that many MSCs like to use PayPal. It makes their reporting responsibility much easier. I am sure that they still aggregate all payments to shoppers as a business expense on their own income tax return.

@nslinhar wrote:

Thank you for the clarification. I recall seeing that somewhere. But it still does not explain how it is a fact Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

Shopping Southeast Pennsylvania, Delaware above the canal, and South Jersey since 2008

@myst4au wrote:

By IRS regulation, the reporting responsibility is transferred to PayPal. I think that is another reason that many MSCs like to use PayPal. It makes their reporting responsibility much easier. I am sure that they still aggregate all payments to shoppers as a business expense on their own income tax return.
@nslinhar wrote:

Thank you for the clarification. I recall seeing that somewhere. But it still does not explain how it is a fact Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS.

Correct. But @shopadam alludes Automotive Insights does not report to the IRS, at all. Thank you for clarifying for anyone reading this.

From what I was told they do not report individual payments. you would only receive a 1099 if you went over $20,000 from PayPal otherwise the IRS is not notified of your payment. That is what I was told I don't know that for a fact. From what the employee that responded from automotive insights said was that they do not report your payment to the IRS meaning shoppers I believe.

I agree with ShopAdam that the MSCs (Automotive Insights included) do not report payments to individual shoppers to the IRS via a 1099 or other form, but they must be claiming these payments as business expenses. So, buried in their Corporate tax returns must be the payments made to shoppers since these are business expenses. Does this make it harder (less likely) compared to a 1099 that the IRS would discover payments made to shoppers and an individual shopper's failure to report those payments, I suspect so. But we are legally obligated to report all revenue, regardless of a 1099, and I choose to do so.

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