revised IRS procedure for verifying social security numbers
Posted by William Byrnes on August 28, 2014
Revenue Procedure 2014-43 provides guidance to individual payees on verifying social security numbers.
This revenue procedure provides revised procedures for individual payees who are required under Treas. Reg. § 31.3406(d)-5(g)(5) to obtain validation of social security numbers (SSNs) from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to prevent or stop backup withholding under section 3406 of the Internal Revenue Code following receipt of a second backup withholding notice from a payor within a three-year period.
This revenue procedure sets forth revised procedures for an individual payee to obtain validation of the payee’s name and SSN from SSA on or after August 1, 2014. Following receipt of a second B notice, a copy of a social security card, as described in section 4, is validation from the SSA of a name and SSN combination.
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