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Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by mgkimsal »

coderintherye wrote: post #37
that_guy_iain wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would suspect you would not be considered an employee but a contractor. I am not sure how they much they're required to report about their vendors.

In the U.S. at least, you are still legally required to report the legal identity of any contractor to the IRS and must ask them to fill out an I-9 form: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/complete-and-correct-form-... Any contractor making >= $600 have to fill the payment and they receive a 1099. There are very few exceptions to that and they are listed in the article.

(not from the article) but from a quick google search...

"businesses that contract with S Corps do not need to issue them a Form 1099-MISC"

I'm an s-corp, and yet I still have people 1099ing me. It's more annoying than anything because I get all my tax stuff done quickly, and someone will send out a late 1099 with slightly different numbers (typically error on their end) and... I've just given up caring about that.

"You don't send 1099s to your landscaping service, or your office supply store purchases, or the energy company, but you've contracted services with them." "Oh, but you're a person"... with an s-corp registered for 10+ years and a separate employer TIN.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by 0xPersona »

morley wrote: post #51
swatcoder wrote: post #8

Aren't employers in most jurisdictions required to verify work eligibility and report income? Does "pseudonymously" just mean that they these employers commit to supporting your alternative identity when engaging with the public, the way publishers might handle a pen name? Or is this something different? I'm probably not the only person who will wonder about this, so it might help to put the answer as text on the sit…

I remember reading in the last year about one of the crypto companies that hired an anonymous employee. (Maybe it was the Zcash Foundation? I can't for the life of me find the article about what they did.) Basically, they kept as low as possible the number of people who knew their real identity. That person or persons would verify employment and file the appropriate paperwork.

Yes! And I think that's an important point to consider. Personally I think of "anon friendly" as existing on a spectrum. Organizations offer various degrees of it. Some "anon friendly lite" organizations will allow you to work pseudonymously, the entire organization doesn't need to know your legal identity, but certain personnel (like execs/HR) will. On the other end of the spectrum are organizations that offer "full anon friendly" where they don't request any information about your legal identity.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by zichy »

jrsj wrote: post #61
zichy wrote: post #25

Every single job posting is from a weird crypto bullshit company. Great.

Alternatively they could be from non-crypto tech startups, 90% of which are working on stuff that is just as bullshit and never would have been funded in the first place if not for post 2008 monetary policy. Crypto isn’t special in being bullshit, this whole industry is full of a lot of bullshit.

The fact that there are many bullshit companies out there does not change the fact that all web3/blockchain companies are bullshit.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by morpheuskafka »

coderintherye wrote: post #37
that_guy_iain wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would suspect you would not be considered an employee but a contractor. I am not sure how they much they're required to report about their vendors.

In the U.S. at least, you are still legally required to report the legal identity of any contractor to the IRS and must ask them to fill out an I-9 form: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/complete-and-correct-form-... Any contractor making >= $600 have to fill the payment and they receive a 1099. There are very few exceptions to that and they are listed in the article.

You are required to solicit the taxpayer identification of anyone for whom you are required to file a 1099-NEC form--this is normally done on Form W-9.

If the contractor fails to furnish a TIN, you are not required to cease business with them, however you will likely have to respond to the IRS and show that they refused to tell you when you file the 1099s each year.

The IRS can assess a $50 civil penalty against the contractor (doubt they bother due to low amount set in statute), but more importantly the employer must withhold 30% backup withholding due to the failure to provide TIN. The employer will have to report the income and withholding on their tax return, which will likely be held up while the IRS verifies the match.

I-9/E-Verify is for employees of your entity only and is not completed for independent contractors, nor for temp/contract labor who is employed by a different company (they do the form).

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by 0xPersona »

nkrisc wrote: post #29
0xPersona wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Admittedly, that sentence might be a tad hyperbolic right now, but I do think increasingly it will be the case. I do think there's no inherit reason why we need to know peoples' legal/irl identities in order to assert that they're suitable for a job. I can even imagine using Zero Knowledge Proofs to prove that candidates reside in certain territories, if that's a requirement that your job might have.

Regardless of the philosophical debate of whether this should be the case or not, it is definitely not true in most places simply for existing legal reasons.

Yeah, I definitely agree. But I do think this philosophical debate is one worth having! I'm hoping the site will at least help kick it off or facilitate it to some degree.

Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by [deleted] »

TekMol wrote: post #36

Here is a question I have often wondered about: Say I am running a business in Europe. And one day I need to translate some text from German to English. I go to Google and enter "German to English translation service". Up comes a website that says "We translate one page of text for ₿0.000048". The website does not tell you where it is operated or who operates it. They state that where they are, they are not obliged t…

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Re: Show HN: I made a site that shows jobs where you can work pseudonymously

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Post by moneywoes »

jrsj wrote: post #61
zichy wrote: post #25

Every single job posting is from a weird crypto bullshit company. Great.

Alternatively they could be from non-crypto tech startups, 90% of which are working on stuff that is just as bullshit and never would have been funded in the first place if not for post 2008 monetary policy. Crypto isn’t special in being bullshit, this whole industry is full of a lot of bullshit.

On the bright side it increased engineering salaries
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