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The IRS uses an Information Returns Processing (IRP) System to match information sent by employers and other third parties to the IRS with what is reported by individuals on their tax returns.

An employer identification number (EIN) is a nine-digit number assigned by the IRS. It's used to identify the tax accounts of employers and certain others who have no employees. The IRS uses the number to identify taxpayers who are required to file various business tax returns.

An employer is an individual (a person, company, or organization) that hires another individual (an employee), pays the employee a salary or wage, and has the power to control the employee's work duties; an individual who employs and supervises an employee.

Everyone must answer the question Everyone who files Form 1040, Form 1040-SR or Form 1040-NR must check one box, answering either "Yes" or "No" to the digital asset question. The question must be answered by all taxpayers, not just those who engaged in a transaction involving digital assets in 2022.

An employer generally must withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes from employees' wages and pay the employer share of these taxes. Social Security and Medicare taxes have different rates and only the social security tax has a wage base limit. The wage base limit is the maximum wage subject to the tax for the year.

IRC section 3401(d)(1) defines the term “employer” as the person for whom an individual performs or performed any service as the employee of such person (the CLE), except that if the person for whom the individual performs or performed the services does not have control of the payment of the wages for such services, ...

An employee is generally considered anyone who performs services, if the business can control what will be done and how it will be done.