1099 Forms

1099 forms report on the total 1099 MISC payments for a particular 1099 supplier. Generate 1099 forms for each tax reporting entity in your organization.

Attention: Voided checks are not included in 1099 payment totals, regardless of when the void occurred.

You can use either of the 1099 Forms reports in Payables:

In accordance with the Internal Revenue Service rules, Payables does not generate a 1099 form for a supplier unless you paid the supplier at least $600 USD for the calendar year. However, Payables generates a 1099 form for the supplier if you do any of the following:

Payables reports on a payment only if the payment pays a distribution that uses one of the following 1099 MISC types in the Income Tax Type field: MISC types 1-14, except MISC9, MISC11 and MISC12.

You can order the output alphabetically either by state code or by the supplier's reporting name.

If this report encounters any of the following exceptions it will stop and report the error on the output:

If the report encounters a Negative MISC Total then it will stop and report this in the log file.

Be sure to first review the 1099 Supplier Exceptions report and 1099 Invoice Exceptions report to identify and fix all errors before you submit the 1099 Forms.

Prerequisites

Report Submission

You submit these reports from the Submit Request window. See: Submitting Standard Reports, Programs, and Listings.

Selected Report Parameters

Tax Reporting Entity. The name of the tax reporting entity for which you want to submit the 1099 forms report.

Payer Name Source. The source from which Payables obtains the payer name for the report.

Telephone Number of Payer. Enter the telephone number that you want Payables to use for the name and address of payer. This is the telephone number of the person in your organization whom the payee should call if there are questions regarding the 1099 form.

Supplier Name. If you want to submit the report for a single supplier, enter the supplier name. Leave this parameter blank to submit the report for all suppliers.

Federal Reporting Limit. The minimum amount for which you want to report 1099 payments to your suppliers.

Order By. Choose whether you want the report ordered alphabetically by state code or by the supplier's reporting name.

Form Headings: 1099 Forms Report

PAYER'S name, street address, city, state and ZIP code. The name and address of your tax reporting entity. You can define the name and location of your tax reporting entity in the Locations window. You then assign the location to your tax reporting entity in the Reporting Entity window. Payables identifies the name according to the Payer Name Source parameter you choose.

PAYER'S Federal identification number. The tax identification number of the tax reporting entity. You enter this tax identification number when you define your tax reporting entities.

RECIPIENT's identification number. The tax identification number of the 1099 supplier.

RECIPIENT's name. The 1099 supplier's name.

Street address. The supplier's street address.

Note: If you are using the 1099 Forms report to print directly on the IRS 1099 forms: You can enter up to three address lines when you enter a supplier but the 1099 form only provides space for one address line. Payables uses the first supplier address line from the Suppliers window and adds as much of the second and third address lines if there is available space in the 1099 Form. The 1099 Forms report prints a maximum of thirty characters in the address field of the 1099 form.

City, state, and ZIP code. Supplier's city, state, and postal code.

Account number (optional). Not supported.

2nd TIN Not. If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has notified you twice in three years that a 1099 supplier has provided you with incorrect tax information, you can enter an X in this box to fulfill your reporting obligations to the IRS.

4 Federal income tax withheld. The total amount of Federal income tax withheld for the 1099 supplier. This is the sum of all paid distributions for a 1099 supplier that have an income tax type of MISC4.

7 Nonemployee compensation. The total amount of nonemployee compensation payments to a 1099 supplier during a calendar year.

9 Payer made direct sales of $5,000 or more of consumer products to a buyer (recipient) for resale. Not supported.

11 State Income Tax Withheld. Not supported. The total amount withheld as state income tax from a 1099 supplier during a calendar year. This field need not be completed for the IRS and is for your convenience only.

12 State/Payer's State Number. Not supported. The abbreviated name of the state and the payer's state identification number, assigned by the state. The IRS does not require this field, it is for your reference only.

13 Excess Golden Parachute Payments. Excess golden parachute payments.

14 Payments to Attorneys. Gross proceeds paid to an attorney for legal services.

Report Output: 1099 Forms --Comma Delimited Format Report

The report output of the 1099 Forms -- Comma Delimited Format report provides the following information. For each supplier (also known as recipient), the report provides values for the data elements listed below. The values are a continuous string separated by commas. The strings of values for each supplier are separated by hard returns.

The following table shows the data elements and the order in which they are presented. For elements that are not supported, the output provides a space instead of a value.

Data Element Supported?
payer's name  
payer's address line 2  
payer's address line 3  
payer's city  
payer's state  
payer's postal code  
payer's telephone number  
payer's federal ID number  
recipient's federal ID number  
supplier name or tax reporting name  
supplier's address line  
supplier's city  
supplier's state  
supplier's postal code  
account number No
second TIN box No
MISC1  
MISC2  
MISC3  
MISC4  
MISC5  
MISC6  
MISC7  
MISC8  
MISC9 No
MISC10  
box 11 No
box 12 No
MISC13  
MISC14  
box 15 No
box 16 No
box 17 No
box 18 No

For example:

For the following data elements: payer's name, payer's address line 2, payer's address line 3, payer's city, payer's state, payer's zip code, payer's telephone number, . . .

The report provides the following string of values: Acme Corporation,90 Fifth Avenue,New York,NY,10022-3422,5057775588, . . .

For the 1099 Forms Comma Delimited Format Report to format correctly, you must exclude commas in the following fields:

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