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1099 will end the world in 2012

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Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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Already discussed here in-depth: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306434 (and about 10 more I don't feel like linking)

A bunch of uninformed whining is hardly in-depth. You'd think you couldn't file these electronically or that people have to create, gasp, invoices for the vast majority of such transactions.

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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post #11
post #2

Already discussed here in-depth: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1306434 (and about 10 more I don't feel like linking)

A bunch of uninformed whining is hardly in-depth. You'd think you couldn't file these electronically or that people have to create, gasp, invoices for the vast majority of such transactions.

Cool so where do I send the 1099 for SAMs club, Office Depot, and the restaurant down the street to? Will you come deal with the reporting discrepancies for me. I'll be getting at least 1000 1099's a year, will you deal with those for me? This is needless bueracratic bullshit to the maximum.

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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Sounds like a business opportunity to me? Build a specialized service that handles those for mom'n'pops, small businesses, etc?

And how; a service that just catalogues tax IDs and handles sending out the right paperwork would make mint... this might be perfect for somebody like Indinero (a recent YC addition).

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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This will be an unmitigated disaster. Office Depot will get 50 million or so 1099's. How do you deal with that many accounting discrepancies? How do you match that many transactions to all those forms. What about under and over-reporting? This is a Democrat clusterfuck if there ever was one.

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/smallbusiness/1099_health_ca...

  In any case, the final impact of the law won't be known 
  until the IRS issues its regulations on the new law, 
  which aren't expected to arrive until sometime next year. 
  The IRS has not yet commented on when it will release   
  regulations or schedule public hearings, and an agency  
  spokesman was unsure when it will do so.

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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The good news is that purchases made with a credit or debit card will be exempt from this requirement. However this requirement is still likely to be a huge pain for me at least because I use PayPal for a lot of vendors for totral purchases over $600 in a year.

The IRS is accepting comments on this requirement at http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=225029,00.html

Re: 1099 will end the world in 2012

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post #12
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bunch of uninformed whining is hardly in-depth. You'd think you couldn't file these electronically or that people have to create, gasp, invoices for the vast majority of such transactions.

Cool so where do I send the 1099 for SAMs club, Office Depot, and the restaurant down the street to? Will you come deal with the reporting discrepancies for me. I'll be getting at least 1000 1099's a year, will you deal with those for me? This is needless bueracratic bullshit to the maximum.

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