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1099 vs. W-2 employee: What’s the difference and which is right for you?

At tax time, employees will get a form that shows how much they earned the previous year from each company they worked for. But some will get a W-2 form, and some will get a 1099-NEC form. So what’s ...
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W-2 or 1099? How the Way You’re Paid Changes Your Taxes (and Benefits)

Every year, filing your taxes feels like stirring an alphabet-and-number soup of forms. It’s hard to keep track of them all, but the most common forms seem to be the W-2 and the 1099. You know they ...