How to approach a federal documentation while considering self-employment obligation/mismatches in info
Most people who work probably do so through normal employment where their incomes are readily apparent. If one works as a self-employed individual then the burden/obligation rests on them to report the facts since presumably the end tax authority may not know otherwise.
I am wondering -- if one is only ever self-employed -- what kind of info tends to be visible from the perspective of the government/feds/tax authority prior to one reporting/filing taxes?
We know normally employed have apparent tax info known, but this may not be the case for those self-employed in all situations. I am wondering how I should feel about coming forth regarding federal documentation of some sort if it is presumed I am self-employed and thus approaching the subject of taxes as a self-employed individual vs. a normally employed one.
The government could "see" the taxes a normal worker is obligated to pay, but how about mismatching info/wrong info/unknown info provided by the self-employed individual and their assessment of their work and/or earnings obligations?
It sounds all too filled with holes for any absolute to verify and/or address wrong claims if it comes down to one's personal reporting and no employer/W-9/end-reporting obligation fulfilled from a certain "middle-man" or other platform where self-employed work may be done as, say, a contractor, gig worker or etc.
Some platforms abide by 1099-K rule -- the idea that under a certain earnings cap there is no legal obligation on the entity to report one individuals earnings, so they are only known to the tax authority based on the reporting option taken by the worker themselves. It isn't the same thing as one who works and has their earnings pat down and assessed by an employer/directed to the government since this self-employed person may not have the entity they work through providing their specific earnings methods/specifics due to not meeting required thresholds on their part for doing so.
Given such, how should one approach the subject on obligations, earnings and etc. when addressing a federal document that asks this? Should one provide full and complete info or just redact it since it's not technically/provably false if the info is never reported and thus needless to mention it outside of direct tax filing itself?
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