Congrats! You made the deadline for sending 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC recipient statements to your vendors and the related IRS tax filing deadline for the 1099-NEC. Then your phone starts ringing with vendors, and now you have corrections to what you reported. Or your organization has multiple entities and you realized income was reported for vendors using the wrong organization. Or that file in IRIS or FIRE has an error status…. Now what?

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Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources:

• IRS Publications:
  • IRIS: Publication 5717 (Rev. 1-2026) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5717.pdf
  • FIRE: Publication 1220 (Rev. 9-2025) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1220.pdf
  • FIRE (1042-S): Publication 1187 (Rev. 9-2025) https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1187.pdf
• IRS Page: Information Return Penalty Chart https://www.irs.gov/payments/information-return-penalties
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