@VolvoGirl wrote:
Yes the business name is you and you use your ssn. Check the first box. You are an individual sole proprietor.
Yes you are the owner of your own self employment business. You are in business for yourself. Use your own info. The people or company that pays you is your customer or client. You need to fill out schedule C for self employment business income. You are considered to have your own business for it. YOU are the business.
As a self-employed person, YOU are the business.
You may not be required to use your actual name. You may be able to create a "dba" name ("doing business as"). For example, you could be "John Smith d/b/a Smith and Sons Landscaping" or whatever suits you. How to make a dba name, and if it needs to be registered with the government, is a matter of state law, check your state to see if there are rules if you don't want to use your own name.
You are required to have a Tax ID number. By default, this is your personal SSN. However, if you don't want to give out your personal SSN for business reasons, you can get an EIN (employer ID number) from the IRS for free in about 15 minutes. Then you use the EIN for business and your SSN for personal and only the IRS knows whose EIN belongs to whose SSN.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/how-to-apply-for-an-ein
OnlyFans is required to report to the IRS how much money they pass through to you using your tax number. OnlyFans will keep the W-9 and use it to set up their tax reporting, they don't send it to anyone else.
