
The 1099-MISC is issued each January by businesses and nonprofits to vendors they paid in the prior year that meet certain criteria. There are a variety of different payments that must be reported on this form. The two most common are rent payments and payments to subcontractors that performed a service for your business. The purpose of this article is not to get into the rules for which payments to include on the form, but how to automate the process. The 1099 filing is mandatory but it doesn’t add value in terms of improving your bottom line. So how do you streamline and automate this process to save time and money?