1099-NEC Detection

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Every contractor paid over $600 surfaces automatically — months before the January 31 deadline, not the week of it.

January is too late to start looking

The 1099-NEC scramble is a January tradition nobody enjoys: digging through twelve months of payments, guessing which payees are individuals and which are corporations, and chasing W-9s while the deadline closes in. The information was in the bank statements all along — someone just had to track it.

What it does

  • Tracks cumulative payments per payee across the whole year
  • Flags every payee that crosses the $600 reporting threshold
  • Separates likely corporations (generally exempt) from individuals and sole proprietors
  • Builds a running contractor list with totals — ready for W-9 collection and filing

How you use it

  1. Process statements as they comeDetection runs continuously across the year’s data.
  2. Check the contractor listSee who’s crossed $600, who’s confirmed, who still needs a W-9.
  3. File in January without the scrambleThe list is already complete when the deadline arrives.
Have a client who tracks contractors themselves? Send them to 1099s When You Hire Help — the business-owner version of this tool.

Make next January boring.

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