Instructions for Form 1099 MISC

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.

One of the most common reasons you’d receive tax form 1099-MISC is if you are self-employed or did work as an independent contractor during the previous year. The IRS refers to this as “non-employee compensation.”In most circumstances, your clients are required to issue Form 1099-MISC when they pay you $600 or more in any year.As a self employed person you are required to report your self employment income if the amount you receive from all sources totals $400 or more. In this situation, the process of filing your taxes is a little different than a taxpayer who only receives regular employment income reported on a W-2.

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

Most of the larger places in the US will cost you around $4-6 per employee.  5000 is a lot, so I'm sure you'll find someone who will negotiate.  So to do it "right" and full-service from a named payroll company, I'm guessing $20,000.Now retail, maybe $2-3 of that is for e-filing services and $2-3 is for printing/mailing.  So if employees are printing their own, getting emails, or getting links to a secure FTP site, then maybe you can save half of that by not mailing.  Check the rules, but that's pretty common.  For the other half, I'd bet plenty of companies have really good deals, including the IRS--I'd bet money they allow you upload a 5,000 line CSV for free or next to it.Of course there's India and stuff--real outsourcing--but I'd have to quintuple check the legalities of sending employee information across international lines, HIPAA and all that.  And even if an international outsource printed and enveloped it, you'd have to have it flown here to ship, and you'd have to solve the e-file aspect.  As with everything it's a trade-off of how much risk you want to pay to transfer.So negotiating in the real world, I'd bet $10,000 to do it right.  These are guesstimates--not quite guesses, but not quite estimates, but a start for your thoughts.  Hopefully a payroll accountant will strike me down.

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.

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.You can find a lot of information here: http://bit.ly/2Nkf48f

Yes, always go for cheap. The problem here is that you can find free or almost free tax prep services. You can go to what appears to be cheap retail tax prep chains. You can buy cheap tax software. You can do all these things cheaply. Or so it appears.The problem is that your “cheap” solution may be the most expensive solution you will ever encounter. So you do it yourself, because you have a cheap software program. Guess what? You just shot yourself in the foot. Unless, of course, you know all the ins and outs of the tax law. Unless you have a good grasp of the relevant portions of 38.000 pages of tax gobbly-goop, written by lawyers, for lawyers, in a language that only approximates English. Unless, of course, you kept up with the hundreds of changes that occurred during the year, including the Code, Regulations, Revenue Procedures, and tax court cases. Don’t bet that your $ 45 tax program did that. They didn’t. They can’t.If you believe that you know enough to properly complete a Schedule C with the lowest amount of tax with no formal training in tax law and without spending at least 40 hours a year in refresh training, you are deluding yourself. “But it’s only a simple tax return.” Sure, you have convinced yourself. Maybe, probably not.If you think a CPA is “too expensive” then you have just been seduced by the power of advertising. You have succumbed to the siren call of ego empowerment. Is it arrogance? Is it false confidence? Gee, I don’t know. What I do know is that a good CPA can usually save a client many times their cost. It may not happen on one return, but over a series of years, the advice, counsel, planning and technical expertise you get with a CPA or EA will pay handsome dividends. Over my 40 years of practice, I have seen many self and tax prep chain prepared returns, and in virtually all of the cases have found something that would have saved the taxpayer lots of money. More than justified the cost.But, of course, these are intangibles, unquantifiables. You know exactly what that cheap tax prep software costs, so focus on that. Forget about the hundreds or thousands of dollars in extra taxes you will pay because you don’t know the ins and outs of the law. Actually, the IRS once did a study on this and found that most taxpayers overpay their taxes. Kinda seems contrary to what you would expect, right? I mean when they audit you, they want more money. That’s correct. Oh, and when you self-prepare, you are on your own if you are challenged. No problem, right? If you buy into that, please, you need serious reality therapy. The tax system is an adversarial system. You wouldn’t face a Ninja with a water squirt pistol would you?Enough said. SWSWSW. Some will, some won’t, so will it be. Sorry I ranted on about this, but I have faced this issue with so many people, including members of my family, and it’s a sore point. I just hate to see people overpay their taxes deceived into thinking they got a “deal” on some cheap tax software.