Free Downloadable Updated 2024 W-9 Form for Contractors

For more information regarding 1099s and who you need to collect a W-9 from, please visit https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1099mec

2024 Specific Instructions for Form 1099-MISC

File Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Information, for each person in the course of your business to whom you have paid the following during the year.

• At least $10 in royalties (see the instructions for box 2) or broker payments in lieu of dividends or tax-exempt interest (see the instructions for box 8).

• At least $600 in:

  1. Rents (box 1);

  2. Prizes and awards (box 3);

  3. Other income payments (box 3);

  4. Generally, the cash paid from a notional principal contract to an individual, partnership, or estate (box 3);

  5. Any fishing boat proceeds (box 5);

  6. Medical and health care payments (box 6);

  7. Crop insurance proceeds (box 9);

  8. Gross proceeds paid to an attorney (box 10) (see Payments to attorneys , later);

  9. Section 409A deferrals (box 12); or

  10. Nonqualified deferred compensation (box 15).