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Before 2020, if you made NEC payments, you provided a Form 1099-MISC to the contractor and the IRS to report the amount of the payments. However, this year the IRS has introduced a new form solely for reporting non-employee compensation paid to independent contractors.
As a business owner, you may have employees. However, you also may have needed some extra help for your business in 2020 and hired an independent contractor. The payments you made to the independent contractor generally are known as “non-employee compensation” or “NEC”.
Before 2020, if you made NEC payments, you provided a Form 1099-MISC to the contractor and the IRS to report the amount of the payments. However, this year the IRS has introduced a new form solely for reporting non-employee compensation paid to independent contractors. The new form is known (not surprisingly!) as Form 1099-NEC. You can find the new form here Form 1099-NEC.
If you or your business meet the four following requirements, you will need to complete and file Form 1099-NEC for each recipient/payee:
Generally, you will need five pieces of information to complete the Form 1099-NEC:
1. Your business information (address, taxpayer ID number, etc.)
2. The recipient’s information (legal name, taxpayer ID number, address)
3. The total amount of NEC payments made to the recipient
4. Federal and state income taxes you withheld (if any) on the payments made
5. State information
We recommend that you request and obtain Form W-9 from any independent contractor to whom you made payments. This will include the recipient’s:
After you have gathered the necessary information, you will need to send the form to three different parties:
1. The IRS
2. The recipient/payee
3. The state jurisdiction(s)
Depending on whether you file electronic or paper forms with the IRS, additional steps may be required.
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