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There are a few different ways of estimating the numbers and thinking about this question. Data from the most recent years are not available—at least not from a reliable source with rigorous methodology—but here is what I can tell you:The most popular type of 1099 is Form 1099-MISC—the form used to report non-employee income including those for self-employed independent contractors (as well as various other types of “miscellaneous” income)Since 2015, there have been just under 16 million self-employed workers (including incorporated and unincorporated contractor businesses). And the data from the BLS seems to suggest this number has been largely consistent from one year to the next: Table A-9. Selected employment indicatorsNow, the total number of 1099-MISC forms has been inching up each year—along with W-2 form filings—and may have surpassed 100 million filing forms. RE: Evaluating the Growth of the 1099 Workforce But this data only goes to 2014 because, again, it’s hard to find reliable data from recent tax years.In terms of the total number of Form 1099s, you’d have to include Interest and Dividend 1099 forms, real estate and rental income, health and education savings accounts, retirement accounts, etc. I’m sure the total number of all 1099 forms surely ranges in the hundreds of millions.Finally, not everybody who is supposed to get a 1099 form gets one. So if you’re asking about the total number of freelancers, the estimates range from about 7.6 million people who primarily rely on self-employed 1099 income and 53 million people who have some type of supplemental income.If you’re someone who’s responsible for filing Form 1099s to the IRS and payee/recipients, I recommend Advanced Micro Solutions for most small-to-medium accounting service needs. It’s basic but very intuitive and cheap.$79 1099 Software Filer & W2 Software for Small Businesses

Assuming that you are talking about 1099-MISC.  Note that there are other 1099s.check this post - Form 1099 MISC Rules & RegulationsQuick answer - A Form 1099 MISC must be filed for each person to whom payment is made of:$600 or more for services performed for a trade or business by people not treated as employees;Rent or prizes and awards that are not for service ($600 or more) and royalties ($10 or more);any fishing boat proceeds,gross proceeds of $600, or more paid to an attorney during the year, orWithheld any federal income tax under the backup withholding rules regardless of the amount of the payment, etc.

Some of the forms are printable.  The W-2G and IRS Form 8027 can be downloaded and printed.   The Social Security Administration came up with a clever way of printing substitute W-2, W-2C, W-3, W-3C forms.  Software vendors get the form in May/June and can incorporate the substitute forms into their software, then submit those forms to SSA to test that everything is lined up with their scanners.  So that the data scans in properly.  The substitute W-2 forms can be printed on plain paper with black ink. Why doesn't the IRS do this?  Good question.  They have moved toward electronic filing and they push efiling over paper filing.  My guess is they invested a ton of money into the red-ink forms and can't easily switch away from them. Take alook at the site www.1099fire.com for efiling 1099 forms.

No, the bank files a 1099 — not you. You’ll get a copy of the 1099-INT that they filed.

Yes you can. Should you? Perhaps, but remember that the 1099 is what the IRS is going to receive. There could be differences.You may receive a 1099 which is missing basis information. You will indicate that, and use your records to fill in the missing information.My suggestion is to use the 1099, cross-referencing to your statements.

The issuer of a 1099 is responsible for submitting it to the IRS. This can generally be done electronically.See Filing Information Returns Electronically (FIRE)Usually the recipient of 1099 is not responsible for submitting the 1099 to the IRS (unless it is a 1099 R showing taxes withheld). S/he simply reports the income on his/her tax return.

Form 8379, the Injured Spouse declaration, is used to ensure that a spouse’s share of a refund from a joint tax return is not used by the IRS as an offset to pay a tax obligation of the other spouse.Before you file this, make sure that you know the difference between this and the Innocent Spouse declaration, Form 8857. You use Form 8379 when your spouse owes money for a legally enforeceable tax debt (such as a student loan which is in default) for which you are not jointly liable. You use Form 8857 when you want to be released from tax liability for an understatement of tax that resulted from actions taken by your spouse of which you had no knowledge, and had no reason to know.As the other answers have specified, you follow the Instructions for Form 8379 (11/2016) on the IRS Web site to actually fill it out.

A2A.The income should be reported on the partnership’s Form 1065. Whether it's taxable income or not depends on whether it's effectively connected to the partnership’s conduct of a trade or business in the US.What you both should do is contact PayPal - in writing, although you can follow up with a phone call - and request that (a) PayPal issue corrected Forms 1099-K using the partnership’s tax ID number and (b) that the partnership’s tax ID Number be used on all future transactions against those accounts. It's possible that PayPal will require you to use only one of the accounts in future (because they can only have one account per TIN), and they may not be able to correct both 1099-Ks. If that's the case, you will have to document that the payments reported on the 1099-Ks were properly made to the partnership, and you should attach a copy of that document to both your 1065 and both 1040s (should you have to file one).