Tuesday, November 8, 2022

Zelle Becomes Loophole for Businesses to Avoid IRS Venmo Tax - Bloomberg

Zelle Becomes Loophole for Businesses to Avoid IRS Venmo Tax - Bloomberg

...He’s referring to an IRS rule change that came into effect on Jan. 1, 2022, requiring third-party payment processors such as Venmo and PayPal to issue 1099-K forms to any users who receive more than $600 in payments via their apps and also file them directly with the IRS. Previously, Venmo and other apps issued 1099-Ks only for customers with gross payments exceeding $20,000 who’d made more than 200 such transactions. But small businesses nationwide have found a loophole: Zelle. Zelle says the new rule doesn’t apply to it, a bank-to-bank payment service, because it’s a network that doesn’t hold funds.

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