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Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK
From: "Doctor Spook" <dr.spook () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:37:40 -0700
On 10/21/06, Chris Walsh <cwalsh () cwalsh org> wrote:
I don't think that strictly speaking this is part of the "know your customer" stuff, although it may be as implemented in the typical case, but in order for interest to be reported on a 1099, you have to supply a taxpayer ID number (which handily is the SSN for individuals in most cases). On Oct 21, 2006, at 4:46 AM, ziplock wrote:I worked in the banking industry for a while, and as I recall, fed regs require you to give the (U.S.) bank your SSN to open any type account.
You may use a "taxpayer identification" number instead, but those are becoming rarer for individuals as time passes. Many small business owners do not even realize that there is that option, in these days. I do not believe that the Patriot Act had anything to do with this requirement, since a social security number (or taxpayer ID) has required for an account circa 1970 or so. Here's a current link for the rules: http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2005/fil9105a.html Here's another for the enactment of the rules: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/ch26s05.html There are multiple documents that may be used to acquire a taxpayer ID, including the much maligned Mexican voting ID (a very easy document to forge). I usually recommend to small businesses that they apply for an ID, rather than using the SSN of the owner, when setting up business accounts, so that death or retirement (or ID theft) cannot disrupt the normal day to day business. -- We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is easy, it's called a police state. -- Jeff Schiller _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 137 million compromised records in 430 incidents over 6 years.
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- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Al Mac (Oct 20)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Henry Brown (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Chris Walsh (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK ziplock (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Doctor Spook (Oct 22)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK dano (Oct 21)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Ivan Junge (Oct 23)
- Re: Personal experiences? Was Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Nick Lewis (Oct 23)
- Re: VISA / 1ST BANK Marjorie Simmons (Oct 20)