Best place to file your 1099s online? Suggestions?

[Judy rocks]

For clients filing 1 - 100 per year.

[TAXNJ]

Cost vs

Suggest doing a Cost vs Benefit on line vs manual pre fillied forms.

[Judy rocks]

Maybe I should use a program?

Sounds like you have a program you like.
Investing a couple hundred bucks a year in a program (or even 49 bucks a year) has never been good in the cost benefit area.
But sometimes I get a guy who I need to file a dozen or so 1099s for.
What program do you use?

Suggest doing a Cost vs Benefit on line vs manual pre fillied forms.

[TAXNJ]

If

Sounds like you have a program you like.
Investing a couple hundred bucks a year in a program (or even 49 bucks a year) has never been good in the cost benefit area.
But sometimes I get a guy who I need to file a dozen or so 1099s for.
What program do you use?

If you are only doing a few dozen, $49 may not be bad, but a couple hundred for a few dozen is terrible.

Some of the clients who use intuit QB may use Intuit's 1099 service dppending on volumn and cost.

But you may find companies advertising form 1099 filing that you may find reasonable for your volumn. Think others can recommend some.

[JohnH]

For those clients who only need a few W-2 forms or 1099;s, I find it's juat as easy to prepare them on paper. The inlut time is about the same as online (maybe even a little less).

I use this program, but I'll warn you it can be a little quirky.


I like the fact that I can import from a spreasheet, so I enter the info in Excel and then import directly into Q&E.

[TAXNJ]

Import

For those clients who only need a few W-2 forms or 1099;s, I find it's juat as easy to prepare them on paper. The inlut time is about the same as online (maybe even a little less).

I use this program, but I'll warn you it can be a little quirky.


I like the fact that I can import from a spreasheet, so I enter the info in Excel and then import directly into Q&E.

What is Q&E and does it take a number of times to ensure the import aligns properly to the forms?

If not done electronically they always want the "red" copy which is the nightmare for some.

[Judy rocks]

Printed fomrs?

So you probably use preprinted forms?
And just run them through your computer.
Any "watch outs" in the buying preprinted forms area?
Or are all preprinted forms about equal.
I use a laser printer.

For those clients who only need a few W-2 forms or 1099;s, I find it's juat as easy to prepare them on paper. The inlut time is about the same as online (maybe even a little less).

I use this program, but I'll warn you it can be a little quirky.


I like the fact that I can import from a spreasheet, so I enter the info in Excel and then import directly into Q&E.

[dkss]

I received an email from Tenenz pushing this service.

I tried this site out this year,



Normally, I just create a template in excel and run IRS provided forms thru my printer. But this year, i tried that site and used it for one client with one 1099-misc. As I recall, it was simple to setup and use.

[JohnH]

What is Q&E and does it take a number of times to ensure the import aligns properly to the forms?

If not done electronically they always want the "red" copy which is the nightmare for some.

So you probably use preprinted forms?
And just run them through your computer.
Any "watch outs" in the buying preprinted forms area?
Or are all preprinted forms about equal.
I use a laser printer.

Q&E prints everything on plain paper except the Red copy A. Then you switch to "PrePrinted Forms" mode to print the Copy A. You don't have to batch print, so I just choose 4 forms to print and then use trial and error to get its alignment feature to get the info to drop onto the right place on the Copy A. Once you determine the correct alignment, it will usually remember the settings. However, for some reason it will occasionally forget, so it's worthwhile to re-check alignment before printing each set of the Copy A forms. (As I said, it can sometimes be finicky). I order the red Copy A pre-printed forms from Tenenz - they're fairly cheap and I usually order twice as many as I need just in case I make some mistakes.

It's also fairly easy to set up an Excel spreadsheet to print forms 2-up when you only have a few to prepare, but in that case you need to order pre-printed forms for all copies.

[zeros]

NT - Emails That Are Junk Status?

Sorry, posted incorrectly.

[TaxGuyBill]

For clients filing 1 - 100 per year.

That's a big range. If there are only a few 1099s to file, I've used "efilemyforms.com" and have been happy with them.

For $3.49 each, they print, mail, and e-file them.




If your State has filing requirements, then Greatland might be a better option.

[Bay ArEA]

That's a big range. If there are only a few 1099s to file, I've used "efilemyforms.com" and have been happy with them.

For $3.49 each, they print, mail, and e-file them.




If your State has filing requirements, then Greatland might be a better option.

I am also a fan of e-filemyforms.com, I've used them for three years now. Simple, easy to use, cheap. I don't know if they are effective if you are doing large amounts though.