The IRS retires FIRE at the end of 2026. Starting with Tax Year 2026 returns, filed in early 2027, IRIS (the Information Returns Intake System) becomes the only IRS intake system for 1099s and related information returns. Once FIRE shuts down, it won’t accept any submissions, including corrections and prior-year returns. IRIS is a different…
The IRS retires its legacy FIRE system on December 31, 2026. From January 2027, IRIS is the only route for federal e-filing of tax year 2026 information returns. Any payer filing 10 or more returns must file electronically, and incorrect filings carry penalties of up to $340 per form. This guide covers mid-market 1099 filing…
For payment platforms and enterprise compliance teams, Form 1099-K sits at the intersection of high-volume transaction data, per-platform threshold tracking, backup withholding obligations, and state-level rules that diverge from the federal standard. The 2025 threshold changes added a recalibration requirement on top of an already complex reporting structure. The compliance challenge is not the headline…
For most organizations, AP teams and controllers at mid-to-large corporations typically manage several 1099 form types simultaneously: 1099-NEC for contractor payments, 1099-MISC for rent and royalties, 1099-INT for interest on business notes, 1099-DIV for shareholder distributions, 1099-R for retirement plan participants, and in many cases, 1042-S for foreign payees. Each carries its own reporting threshold,…
An enterprise filing 50,000 information returns with a 3% TIN error rate faces up to $510,000 in maximum penalty exposure if those errors go uncorrected past August 1. That figure changes significantly based on when errors are caught, how abatement is requested, and what compliance controls are documented. This is a risk management playbook for…
Picture this: An enterprise with 15,000 active vendors misses annual W-9 re-solicitations for 800 vendors over two years. When the IRS issues a 972CG penalty notice proposing more than $2 million in information return penalties, the legal team discovers there is no central solicitation history; just informal email trails scattered across different AP mailboxes. The…
When a pension administrator codes a 65-year-old retiree’s distribution as Code 2 instead of Code 7, the IRS reads it as an early distribution with an exception applied. At enterprise scale, that single error replicated across 500 forms triggers hundreds of recipient notices and a months-long correction project. This guide is written for plan administrators,…
Learn how the IRS transition from FIRE to IRIS impacts 1099 filing and what businesses must do to prepare for the new system.
