W-9 Solicitation at Scale: How to Collect and Validate TINs Before 1099 Season
Picture this: An enterprise with 15,000 active vendors misses annual W-9 re-solicitations for 800 vendors over two years. When the IRS issues a 972CG penalty notice proposing more than $2 million in information return penalties, the legal team discovers there is no central solicitation history; just informal email trails scattered across different AP mailboxes. The…
