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The final regulations reflect recent changes to the statutory law that affect the backup withholding requirements for third party settlement organizations who make payments in settlement of third party network transactions.
MechanismThird party settlement organizations are payment platforms, and this sets the withholding and information-reporting conduct they must carry out on the payments they settle for others.
So whatThe backup withholding requirements name third party settlement organizations as the party that carries them — the platform, not the seller being paid. These are final regulations, so the engineering and the exposure both sit on the platform's side of the transaction now, not at some future compliance date.
Already in force
Took effect the day it published. The capture carries no comment window: on this one the input stage is over and what is left is the obligation.
TD 10053
Same document“Backup Withholding on Third Party Network Transactions”
Selection rule: Read by hand from the Federal Register issue of 2026-08-10, for a document setting reporting duties on an actor class these firms belong to.
Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service 91 FR 51391 FR Doc. 2026-16269 published 2026-08-10 federalregister.gov ↗official PDF ↗
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