If you pay independent contractors $600 or more annually, you must report those payments to the IRS on Form 1099-NEC. The process is fairly simple if you only need to send one or two, but it gets more ...

Employers who pay independent contractors for work that is not paid through their payrolls do not take out deductions. The contractors file their own taxes and make the payments. As a result, ...

If part of running your business involves receiving or making payments of more than $600 for the use or occupation of property that you own, then you are going to need to report that 1099 rental ...

It's tax season, and if you've received an unfamiliar income form this year, it might be a 1099 tax form. A 1099 form is used to document income received outside of a permanent salaried job. This ...

You have to report PayPal income to the IRS. Learn how PayPal tracks your income and how to fill out a PayPal 1099.

If you've already filed your tax return, and get a form 1099-C in the mail afterwards, it might mean that you didn't report the correct amount of taxable income. Here's what you need to know about the ...

Have you ever had to deal with unscrambling an incorrect IRS Form 1099 that sticks you with too much income? If so, you may already know that IRS Form 1099 is the most important tax form there is.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert W. Wood is a tax lawyer focusing on taxes and litigation. But the real danger is receiving them. The IRS gets a copy of ...