I was awarded about $2700 in "Finders Fees" by a company in 2018 for referring some clients to them. And despite seven months of me pestering about them and my account on their portal claiming that I've been paid (including listing a check number), I've never received any payment. I've been checking in with them about it every couple weeks and they always claim to be looking into it, but it's an endless series of problems and excuses. First it was "These things can take up to 90 days to process", then it was that they had switched to a new check processor and had to re-start the process, then they claimed that a check was returned as undeliverable, then they lost my address, etc etc etc. I'm still fighting with them about it but rapidly losing any expectation that I'll ever see the money.
(FYI, this is a Fortune 500 company. Not a small organization)
However, yesterday I got a 1099 from them (amusingly they were able to deliver that properly) for the full amount that I'm owed. I haven't done my 2018 taxes yet, but now I'm facing the prospect of having to pay income tax on money that I have never actually received. And boy does that annoy me.
What's the best course of action here?
Submitted February 28, 2019 at 05:47PM by Princess_Fluffypants https://ift.tt/2GOs7jL
