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Who fills out a 1099-MISC form?

Among the numerous tax forms, the IRS will be expecting you to fill out a 1099-MISC form in two cases:

1. you made payments to freelancers or independent contractors for business-related services totaling at least $600 within the year;

2. or you paid minimum $10 in royalties or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest.

However, if you made any payments for personal or household services, there is no need to submit a 1099-MISC form.

What is this document for?

The 1099-MISC is a report of the total amount of taxable payments the independent contractor received from a single person or a business. It is aimed to prevent the self-employed from underreporting their miscellaneous income.

Is 1099-MISC form accompanied by other forms?

While completing the fillable document, a business entity must use the name, address and Social Security or tax identification number as indicated in your W-9. The individual contractors must report their miscellaneous earnings (from 1099) on a 1040 tax return as well.

When is the form due?

The deadline for businesses to send the copy to individual contractors is January 31st of the year following the tax year being reported, while the individuals are required to submit the filled out 1099 forms to the IRS by February 28th. However, if you are using electronic filing, the due dates are later — February 28th and March 31st, respectively.

How do I create the 1099-MISC form?

The details provided on the form must include the company’s basic information along with a tax ID number and its address. The contractor on his part is required to indicate his name, identification or social security number and other personal information. To help you out with completing the document there is an instruction from the IRS on Page 5 and Page 7.

Where do I file 1099-MISC form?

1099-MISC is a multi-part document and should be received by different institutions: the IRS, state tax departments, the recipient of the income, etc. Each copy bears a note stating where to send the particular page. Therefore, having completed the form you should read carefully what the destination of all 1099-MISC copies are and make sure that all the recipients get the document on time.

Form 1099 misc or miscellaneous income is an irs form that independent contractors and self-employed individuals use to report payments and miscellaneous income such as non-employee compensation rents prizes awards healthcare payments and so on if you fill out form 1099 misc you also need to complete and send a copy of form 1096 to the irs you can either download your copy from the irs website or get the current revision of form 1099-misc that you can edit sign and submit electronically at pdffiller.com note that the irs overhauled form 1099 misc in 2020 and introduced a new form called 1099 nec non-employee compensation starting in the 2020 tax year form 1099 misc has several parts copy a of form 1099 misc in red is intended for irs use only the black parts of the form can be completed and sent to other recipients copy one goes to the recipient's state tax department copy b is retained by the recipient copy two goes with the recipient's state tax return copy c stays with the payer let's proceed with completing the form start by filling out your name address and identification number as well as the recipient's name address and social security number the 1099-misc form has a series of boxes in which the payer will include whichever type of payment was made this may include rents in box 1 royalties in box 2 medical health care payments in box 6. other boxes may be filled out including box 4 federal income tax withheld and box 15 state tax withheld once the necessary fields are completed and checked off save the form to your device or securely share it with your recipient via email fax usps or sms good luck and don't forget to submit your form 1099-misc before the due date established by the irs