Argh!

[go_team]

Where, if anywhere, am I supposed to attach the 1099-MISC? I've got everything else filled out: the forms for profit or loss from a business, self-employment tax, and the fuckin' 1040 itself, which I swear gets more hateful every time I look its way, and I can't find any instructions pertaining to whether I even have to enclose the 1099-MISC, let alone staple it to some crucial piece of paper or whatever. So far the two most sensible solutions I've come up with are:

1. I don't have to enclose the 1099-MISC, just the business and self-employment tax forms.
2. I should just stick an extra copy of the 1099-MISC in the envelope with my 1040 and all that other crap, just in case.

I think I'm gonna go with option #2 unless I meet someone who knows better in my quest to photocopy everything and get it all in the mail. Argle-bargle!

Comments

[linley.livejournal.com]

I don't believe you have to send in your 1099-MISC; whoever sent it to you needs to file it, however. (Of course, I e-filed my taxes, so I didn't have to mail one bit of paper.)

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

This is my understanding as well.

[goteam.livejournal.com]

I don't even remember what I ended up doing, but I put it all in the mail last week. If the IRS wants to freak out about the paltry sums of money involved, then so be it. But I doubt the taxes I paid this year would cover the labor cost of giving me more trouble than a letter saying "hey, you forgot to enclose X useless bit of paper".

[agthorr.livejournal.com]

I actually got a letter like that once. It said something to the effect of "You made an arithmetic error and owe us $4.00, plus interest. Don't bother sending it to us."

Of course, just to make things confusing I found a different error in that tax return this year, so I had to file a revised return. Now they owe me a few hundred. muahahhaha!