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Rents, prizes, awards and the other payments that don't fit a paycheck - the MISC covers them. Guided fields, live preview, pay only at download.
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Form 1099-MISC reports miscellaneous information: payments a business made during the year that aren't wages and aren't contractor compensation. The most common entries are rents of $600 or more, prizes and awards, medical and health care payments, and gross proceeds paid to attorneys.
Since the 1099-NEC returned, the MISC no longer carries contractor pay - it's strictly the "everything else" form of the 1099 family. That split trips up a lot of filers, which is why our creator labels every box in plain English as you go.
Enter the payer, the recipient and the amounts, preview the finished form free, and download a clean, IRS-compliant PDF when you're happy with it.
Businesses and landlords' payers that made reportable miscellaneous payments - rent, prizes, medical payments, attorney proceeds - of $600 or more (or $10+ in royalties).
The person or business you paid gets a copy; the IRS gets its own.
A real-world example: Your business pays $1,500 a month to rent a small office from a private landlord. That's $18,000 of reportable rent - a 1099-MISC with the landlord's details on it.
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| What | When | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Send the recipient copy | January 31, 2027 | February 15 if you only report in boxes 8 or 10 |
| File with the IRS on paper | February 28, 2027 | E-filing is mandatory at 10 or more information returns |
| File with the IRS electronically | March 31, 2027 | E-filing buys the extra month |
Dates falling on a weekend or legal holiday shift to the next business day.
Think of the MISC as the form for money that moved without work being performed for it: rent for office space or equipment, a prize your business awarded, a legal settlement's attorney proceeds, royalties over $10. If the payment was for someone's services, it belongs on a 1099-NEC instead.
Box 1 (rents), Box 3 (other income) and Box 10 (gross proceeds to attorneys) do most of the work for typical small-business filers. Our creator shows only what you need and keeps the totals consistent across copies.
Plenty of small businesses file both: NECs for their freelancers and a MISC or two for rent or an award. Since both are due in the same season, it pays to run them as one batch - volume pricing drops the per-form cost automatically when you create several forms.
First: contractor pay on a MISC. Since the NEC returned, the IRS matches service compensation against NECs specifically - a MISC in its place reads as a mismatch. Second: skipping the form because the payment "wasn't business-like" - if your business paid the rent or awarded the prize, it counts. Third: mismatched recipient details - collect a W-9 before you pay, and the name/TIN pair on your MISC will match what the IRS has.
Every copy you create here previews free before you commit, which is exactly when these three are cheapest to catch.
Box 1 takes rents - office space, equipment, land your business paid to use. Box 2 covers royalties over $10. Box 3, "other income," is the home of prizes, awards and taxable payments that fit nowhere else. Box 6 carries medical and health care payments made in the course of business, and Box 10 reports gross proceeds paid to attorneys - a box with its own matching rules.
Most filers touch one or two boxes and leave the rest blank. The creator shows each box with a plain-English label, so "which box?" stops being the hard part of the form.
The recipient's W-9 for their legal name and TIN, your business details and EIN, and the annual totals per payment type from your books. That's the entire ingredient list - the guided flow asks for each item once and keeps every copy consistent.
And if the same January also brings contractor NECs, run everything as one batch: same details screen, same preview step, and volume pricing pulling the per-form price down as the stack grows.
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Not anymore. Compensation for services goes on the 1099-NEC. The MISC covers rents, prizes, awards, medical payments, attorney proceeds and similar non-wage income.
Generally $600 or more per recipient per year for most boxes, and $10 or more for royalties.
The recipient copy is due by January 31, 2027; the IRS copy follows by the end of February (paper) or the end of March (e-file).
No - the 1099-MISC covers payments made in the course of a trade or business. Personal rent or a personal gift doesn't get reported here.
Yes. Create as many as you need in a row - volume pricing lowers each additional form's price automatically.
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