Rent, prizes, royalties, medical payments, attorney proceeds: the payments that do not belong on a paystub or a 1099-NEC. Fill only the boxes you need and preview free.
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The form has many boxes but most payers use one or two. This 1099 MISC generator needs no software and no account.
Decide what you paid: rent goes in Box 1, royalties in Box 2, prizes and other income in Box 3. Leave the boxes you do not need empty.
Add the payer's name, address and TIN, then the recipient's details from their Form W-9 and the amount for each box.
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Most forms come from one of these three payments.
A coffee shop pays $1,500 a month for its premises, $18,000 for the year. That is over $2,000, so the shop files a 1099-MISC with $18,000 in Box 1. If the rent goes to a real estate agent or property manager instead, the shop does not file; the agent reports it to the owner.
A business runs a contest and pays the winner $2,500. Prizes and awards that are not for services go in Box 3, other income. Taxable damages and similar one-off payments of $2,000 or more belong in the same box.
A company settles a claim and sends $40,000 to the other side's law firm. Gross proceeds of $600 or more paid to an attorney go in Box 10, even when the firm is a corporation. Fees for your own lawyer's services go on the 1099-NEC.
Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Information, reports payments a business makes that are neither wages nor pay for services. Each kind of payment has its own box and its own reporting threshold for 2026.
| Box | What you paid | Report when it reaches |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rents for office space, equipment or land | $2,000 |
| 2 | Royalties | $10 |
| 3 | Prizes, awards and other income | $2,000 |
| 4 | Federal income tax withheld (backup withholding) | Any amount |
| 5 | Fishing boat proceeds | Any amount |
| 6 | Medical and health care payments | $2,000 |
| 7 | Direct sales of consumer products for resale (checkbox) | $5,000 |
| 8 | Substitute payments in lieu of dividends or interest | $10 |
| 9 | Crop insurance proceeds | $2,000 |
| 10 | Gross proceeds paid to an attorney | $600 |
| 11 | Fish purchased for resale | See instructions |
| 12 and 15 | Section 409A deferrals and nonqualified deferred compensation | $2,000 |
| 13a, 13b and 14 | Cash tips, tipped occupation code and overtime compensation | New for 2026 |
| 16 to 18 | State tax withheld, state number and state income | Optional |
The $2,000 figures applied from January 1, 2026. For payments made in 2025 those boxes used $600. The full rules are in the IRS Instructions for Forms 1099-MISC and 1099-NEC.
A business, nonprofit or government agency files the form for each person it paid at or above the threshold in the course of its trade or business. Add up the year's payments to each recipient.
Nonemployee compensation left Box 7 of the 1099-MISC in 2020. Many small businesses need both forms at year end: one for the landlord, one for each contractor. Create the second with the 1099-NEC generator. Employees get neither; their wages go on a W-2 from the W-2 form generator.
Unlike the 1099-NEC, the 1099-MISC has separate dates for the recipient copy, paper filing and e-filing.
| What is due | Tax year 2025 | Tax year 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Copy B to the recipient | February 2, 2026 | February 1, 2027 |
| Copy B when Box 8 or Box 10 has an amount | February 17, 2026 | February 16, 2027 |
| Copy A to the IRS on paper | March 2, 2026 | March 1, 2027 |
| E-file with the IRS | March 31, 2026 | March 31, 2027 |
| When it is filed correctly | Returns due in 2026 | Returns due in 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Within 30 days of the due date | $60 | $60 |
| After 30 days but by August 1 | $130 | $130 |
| After August 1 or never | $340 | $340 |
| Intentional disregard | At least $680 | At least $690 |
Payers with 10 or more information returns in a year must e-file. After January 1, 2027 the free IRS IRIS system is the only way to do that. The 2027 dates follow the IRS weekend and holiday rule.
Online Paystub formats your payment records on the 1099-MISC layout. It does not file anything with the government. Give Copy B to the recipient and keep a copy for at least three years.
Copy A for the IRS is a scannable red form. The IRS says self-printed copies of Copy A cannot be scanned and may draw a penalty, so e-file or use the official printed form with Form 1096. A 1099-MISC must reflect payments that were actually made; creating one with invented income is fraud.
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No. Since tax year 2020 pay for services by a nonemployee goes on Form 1099-NEC. The 1099-MISC is for rent, prizes, royalties and the other payments listed above.
$2,000 for most boxes, including rent, prizes and other income and medical payments. Royalties are reported from $10 and gross proceeds paid to an attorney from $600. For 2025 payments the general threshold was $600.
No. Personal payments are not reportable. The form is required only when the rent is paid in the course of a trade or business, for example for an office or a shop.
Yes. If you paid someone rent and also paid them for services, the rent goes on a 1099-MISC and the fees go on a 1099-NEC. Each form is created separately.
Box 7 used to hold nonemployee compensation. That moved to the 1099-NEC in 2020. Box 7 is now a checkbox for direct sales of $5,000 or more of consumer products for resale.
Give the recipient copy to the payee and keep one for your records. Copy A for the IRS should be e-filed or sent on the official red-ink form, because a Copy A printed from a PDF cannot be scanned.
The generator currently produces the calendar year 2026 form on the December 2026 revision. That revision must not be used for earlier years.
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