I use Stripe as my payment processor. It takes customer money and holds it there. When the services are provided (we sell travel bookings), only then do we distribute money to our bank account, usually after first paying ~75% to the service provider (which we usually can pay out right from Stripe via bank transfer) and after credit card fees. We also do a lot of refunds.
I'd like to be able to base taxable income/profit off of our bank account cash flows, just because it's more straightforward. A large percentage of customer payments never make it to us because they flow to the service provider or are refunded. Is there anyway to base our taxes on just our bank account revenues/expenses for 2017 and ignore our payment processor revenues (which also, by the way, sit for weeks if not months before we see them)?
I'm concerned that the 1099-K doc that Stripe will provide the IRS will overinflate our revenues and trigger a big red flag. It might be more than double the revenues that make it to our bank account.
Thanks for any guidance!
