You will include the entire $8,000 you paid them on the 1099-NEC. Your reporting requirements are not changed by the PSE reporting requirements. This basically is to show where your money went as well as it is to report that they were paid. Depending on how they report their income, they may or may not need to make some adjustments in how they report the income.
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