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I highly doubt they would hire you as an LLC. They will still take your ID and everything. You could give your EIN instead of SSN, but most places require a copy of your social security card.
Anyone can make an LLC. Costs around $1k to set up and $1k per year maintain.
BUT, sites like corporationwiki.com will link your real name with your LLC name. LLCs are a public record. You can't run from public records with the internet now.
I don't know if there is a way to prevent that though. Like if you google your real name, the LLC name will come up on corporation wiki as one of the first results. And if that strip club is ever audited or in a lawsuit, all the people who worked there will be listed in a public record including your LLC name.
^^^ forming your own LLC / S-Corp and using your LLC / S-Corp's EIN for payments from strip clubs and webcam hosts basically adds another 'layer of separation'. That separation is increased even further if your LLC / S-Corp is formed in a different state than the one you live in.
Also using an S-Corp to split your own payments into a 'salary' and a 'dividend' offers additional advantages ... both for reduced income tax rates, as well as the possibility of your S-Corp receiving gov't subsidies to help purchase SHOP Public Exchange health insurance for you.
Yes forming an LLC / S-Corp does involve both 'up-front' costs for registering the business, as well as 'ongoing' costs for additional annual accounting and 'paperwork' filings. However, those costs don't change much as total income increases. Thus a general rule of thumb is that forming your own LLC / S-Corp starts to be 'worth it' at the ~$75,000 annual income level. However, the potential Obamacare SHOP 'employer subsidy' for an S-Corp may now lower that point a bit.
In the specific personal situation you are referring to, it sounds like you are working at a club which has recently lost an 'employee dancer' lawsuit ??? Thus the club is attempting to preserve pseudo-independent contractor status by making dancers 'junior partners' in a newly formed club LLC ??? If so, any dancers 'signing-on' as junior partners using their own names and social security numbers will definitely be creating a 'paper trail' linking their own social security numbers to a well known 'adult entertainment business'. This is potentially a worse situation for the dancer than simply receiving a 1099 report of payments from a strip club or webcam host, since from a technical standpoint the junior partner dancer is considered to be part OWNER of a well known 'adult entertainment business'. And, as you alluded to earlier, if / when the club's new LLC is audited ... something that is fairly likely given the recent 'employee dancer' lawsuit and the multi-million dollar size of the club's new LLC ... the club's new LLC will provide an 'open book' to the IRS in regard to who the junior partner 'owners' are and how much they were paid.
Unfortunately, for purposes of 'prognostication', this new approach of a club creating a separate LLC to channel payments to junior partner dancers has no precedent. It's possible that the courts could see this as an attempted 'end run' by the clubowner to circumvent the court's earlier ruling that all dancers must be treated as 'employees'. Thus all that can be 'prognosticated' is that this new LLC with dancers becoming junior partners is likely to be subject to elevated 'attention' levels.
Since you have an LLC, you can go ahead and do the EIN by yourself from the IRS website, it is pretty easy to obtain.
However, I don't believe it will be adding any layer of protection ( beside protecting your asset in case something went wrong with the club)
^^^ ultimately, that depends on how in-depth a future background check service will be. On the surface, using an EIN thus having the EIN number appear on 'adult industry' issued 1099 income reports instead of a personal social security number 'breaks the direct link' of an official paper trail between an 'adult industry' business and the individual. Granted that the background check service could potentially go an extra step to investigate the EIN, the LLC to which the EIN is tied, the ownership of the LLC etc., but this requires a whole bunch of additional effort.
In cases where prospective state professional licensing agencies or employer require applicants to complete an IRS 4506 disclosure form, using the above technique will at worst result in the link being discovered between the individual and the LLC ... with zero chance of disclosure that the LLC has received 1099 payments from 'adult industry' related companies since the IRS 4506 permission form only extends to the disclosure of PERSONAL tax records. IMHO that is a very useful aspect.
^^^ the IRS 1065 schedule K1 clearly lists either an EIN + LLC / S-Corp name, or a SS# + individual's name, as the 'limited partner' to which dividend payments were made. Thus having formed an LLC / S-Corp and having obtained a separate EIN would lead to a far 'cleaner' paper trail.
In regard to audit risk, my guess is that the greatest risk will actually come from a targeted IRS investigation as a consequence of the successful 'employee dancer' lawsuit ... given that this new limited partnership structure will be considered by many to be an 'end run' around the 'employee treatment' mandate handed down as the result of the successful 'employee dancer' lawsuit. Keep in mind that the attempted limited partnership structure will not only be a factor for parties directly involved in the 'employee dancer' lawsuit against your club, but will be a potential precedent which can be applied to all other clubs which have previously lost 'employee dancer' lawsuits, as well as to clubs who will face 'employee dancer' lawsuits in the future.
All that would have to happen is for any party involved in the 'employee dancer' lawsuit, or any member of the IRS or state gov'ts, to raise the point with the judge who issued the 'employee dancer' ruling against your club ... which in turn would virtually guarantee a targeted IRS investigation. And undoubtedly such a targeted IRS investigation would take a very close look at the 'senior partner' i.e. the owners of your club ( chain ), as well as all of the 'limited partner' dancers.