Drop a year of payments. This totals them by vendor, shows who crossed the reporting threshold you set, who is close enough to cross before year end, and โ the part that actually costs you time in January โ which of those vendors you have no tax ID on file for.
It finds a date, an amount and a vendor column from the header row, and a tax ID column if one
is there โ anything named like TIN, EIN, SSN,
Tax ID or W-9. Vendor names are matched with punctuation, case and
company suffixes removed, so ACME Corp and Acme Corporation, Inc. total
as one vendor instead of two half-totals that each sit under the threshold.
Only positive amounts count toward a vendor total. A refund or a reversal reduces what you actually paid, and it is netted off rather than added.
Inc, Corp, LLC or similar. Corporations are generally
outside 1099-NEC reporting, but there are real exceptions (payments to attorneys being the one
everybody trips on), and an LLC may be taxed as a sole proprietorship. This is a hint to
go and look at the W-9, never a determination. The form the vendor signed decides it,
not their letterhead.It does not decide who gets a 1099, it does not know which box a payment belongs in, and it files nothing. It adds up what you paid, groups it sensibly, and tells you where your records are incomplete. Everything after that is a conversation with your accountant.