IRS imposes $50 Penalty (to you?) if your 1099-MISC/S is missing Contractor's SSN/TIN

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1. apparently in all of USA, per IRS.
2. thus all the more reason to REQUIRE, per IRS, of all your contractors/subs, their corect SSN/TIN, as a condition of hire.
3. what should be used to request it, litigiously, then? a W-9 form as part of the hire package?
4. since they might fail to fill it out, on the premise they're an indie not an employee, i'd probably then go as far to write into the contract that the independent contractor cannot be paid per IRS, wihout an W-9 certifying their status as a payee.