My cell-phone will be off while I use a beeper that costs substantially less than cellular phone usage. Many times, a return call from a regular phone costs a lot less than a call from my cellular phone. If you are using a plan with a minimum usage base, change your plan to the lowest monthly rate. You are just as accessible to your office, clients, customers and family. It just costs you less.
Beepers have local, regional or national access.
You will probably still get a notice from the IRS telling you that you should have obtained the number. If they assess a fine, send them a response enclosing a copy of the Form 1099 and highlight the notice in the SSN block. We may edit the information and include it in a future edition. Send the information to Roger A. Kahan, CPA via mail, e-mail or FAX it. Promoters of broader roles for accountants have been known to give long, instructive and dramatic calls for getting more involved as strategic business planners in addition to the more traditional tax and accounting work.