Stripe is under the LLC, PayPal is still under my personal name, and Wise gets payouts from both. How bad is that?
I am in Thailand and run a Delaware LLC for digital products and affiliate income. Stripe is correctly set up under the LLC with the EIN, but my older PayPal account is still in my own personal profile, and I sometimes sweep funds into Wise because contractor payouts are cheaper there.
The business is finally large enough that I want to clean this up before year-end. My concern is not just accounting mess. I want to know whether this kind of multi-platform payee mismatch creates real tax-form or withholding risk.
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