Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income

File Form 1099-MISC for each person to whom you have paid:

• at least $10 in royalties or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest
• at least $600 in rents, services (including parts and materials), prizes and awards, other income payments, medical and health care payments, crop insurance proceeds, cash payments for fish (or other aquatic life) you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish, or, generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate
• any fishing boat proceeds
• gross proceeds of $600 or more paid to an attorney during the year.

In addition, use Form 1099-MISC to report that you made direct sales of at least $5,000 of consumer products to a buyer for resale anywhere other than a permanent retail establishment.

You must also file Form 1099-MISC for each person from whom you have withheld any federal income tax under the backup withholding rules regardless of the amount of the payment.

Be sure to report each payment in the proper box because the IRS uses this information to determine whether the recipient has properly reported the payment.

Form 1099-MISC (PDF) Miscellaneous Income.

Source: Internal Revenue Service
Last reviewed: January 16, 2014