Register Today For April's 2026 Form 1099 Spring Compliance Online Seminar

We request that you join us on Wednesday, April 15th. Get the 1099 compliance guidance you need for 2026, plus get your questions answered by our expert. But hurry, to keep the live question and answer session manageable registration slots are limited!

Attend this 150 minute program, earn 3.0 CPE's and: 

  • Learn time-saving tips for streamlining your in-year IRS mandated 1099 due diligence tasks;
  • Get best practices, tools, and advice for training your staff;
  • Stay current on year-to-year Form W-9/1099 due diligence; changes - like the Form 1099-NEC/MISC's new boxes, and new approaches to documenting LLC's, Partnerships, and Sole Proprietors, plus;
  • Prepare your organization for a successful 1099 compliance season.

Our webcasts are garnering rave reviews, as most recently attested to by these well satisfied Accounts Payable professionals:

"Probably the best webinar EVER...EXCELLENT JOB!"  

- Trish Mann, Accounts Payable Supervisor, MagMutual LLC

 "The last 1099 webinar was my first experience with your company. The webinar was some of the best online education I have come across. Thank you for your help with the questions asked and for putting on a great webinar!"  

- Chris Roberts, Director of Finance, ALPS Corporation

We are a NASBA (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) registered sponsor offering 3.0 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for your attendance! This webinar is directed at providing entry-level and intermediate-level training. No prerequisites are required. Our instructor is not only a veteran tax attorney but a professionally trained educator well versed in providing plain English instructions for understanding otherwise highly technical and complex tax topics such as this April's upcoming offering:

Title:

2026 Form 1099 Spring Compliance Online Seminar

Continuing Professional Education Credits Available

3.0 CPE's

Date/Time

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 from 1:00-3:30pm EST (noon CT, 11am MT, 10am PT)

Course Level

Basic/Intermediate

Prerequisites

None

Description

The past year has seen a blizzard of 1099/W-2 changes, making the tax code and your job more complicated. This time saving seminar helps Accounts Payable & Tax Departments handle 2026's need to know 1099 updates and new 1099/W-2 due diligence rules:

Learning Objectives

  • Discover how to respond to 2025/2026 changes, including new 2026 Draft Forms 1099 NEC/MISC; new 2026 Draft Form W-2; changes to other IRS information returns like the 1099-R, 1099-K, 1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-B, 1099-C, 1099-S, and W-2G; all while creating the year-round processes and documentation auditors look for;

  • Bring immediate cost effective solutions to your organization, streamline vendor validation, and better identify problem payments and payees;

  • Get best practices for 1099 reporting mergers/acquisitions, handling undocumented payees, service payments that require reporting a related good, EIN red flags, 1099 TIN solicitation rules, and TIN Matching compliance policies and procedures;

  • Discover how to validate the 1099 reportable payee who is a Sole Proprietor, Disregarded Entity, Corp, LLC, and S-Corp so you can save time and simplify your job duties;

  • Get tips for handling payment situations involving attorney/settlements, lien/garnishment, or to other agents and middlemen;

  • Learn best practices for researching and processing Spring B-Notice lists, your step-by-step response, plus tips on 1099 back up withholding and Form 945 reporting;

  • Learn our nationally recognized step-by-step process for waiving this summer's wave of IRS 972-CG proposed penalty notices, and reduce 1099 non-compliance risk;

  • Get ready for the late April spring B-Notice season, and learn model procedures so as to avoid penalty

  • Learn how to identify when your organization is generating 1099 reportable revenue in different states

  • Participate in live Q&A with our expert speaker

After registering and submitting payment you will receive a confirmation email from the Go To Webinar platform containing your password and information about joining the webinar. In addition, and in the twenty-four hours leading up to the webinar you will get further reminders that include this same log on information and password. Make sure that you add to your contacts or whitelist the following emails (as they are how you will get your log on information for attending the program):

customercare@gotowebinar.com

contactus@taxinformationreporting.com

Presenter

Steven Mercatante Esq.

Presenter Bio

Steven Mercatante Esq. is the Principal and Founder of TIR Consulting, LLC. Steven is a nationally recognized leader in tax reporting education and consulting on specialized compliance issues.

Furthermore, he is a professional speaker that has conducted on-site consultation for corporate clients from across the world and presented hundreds of accounts payable and tax specific webinars for organizations such as: Aurora Training Advantage, Wolters Kluwer, Encoursa, Clear Law, Convey Compliance Systems, The Center For Competitive Management, Progressive Business Conferences, IAPP, Balance Consulting, Lavante, The Accounts Payable Network, and Accounts Payable Now and Tomorrow.  He has also  spoken at industry events such as the Tax Information Reporting & AP Leadership Conference, U.S. Bank's Annual Supply Chain Conference, IAPP's Fusion Conference, and Convey Compliance's C2 Summit's.

Steven is also a published author, with numerous articles published on tax and financial law including a law review article entitled The Deregulation of Usury Ceilings, Rise of Easy Credit, and Increasing Consumer Debt published with the South Dakota Law Review. Steven has also provided the content for IAPP's Tax & Regulatory Self-Study Course and is the author of an entire line of self-study tax courses for publishers such as Encoursa and CPE Think.

In addition, he annually publishes a series of tax guides on topics such as: W-9/1099 & W-8/1042-S compliance and reporting, payment cards, U.S. State & Local Reporting (including Sales & Use), worker compensation issues, like-kind exchanges, international tax compliance, and more - with each guide updated annually to reflect the most recent changes in the law.

Steven received his Juris Doctor from Michigan State University College of Law, graduating with a concentration in International Law while earning the experience to match during an internship at British Law Firm Allen & Overy's office in Rome, Italy. Before law school he was a high school social studies teacher and graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan - as well as a Teaching Certificate in history and political science from Eastern Michigan University. He is an active member of the State Bar of Michigan.

Price:

$355 (with three months of post-seminar support)

$305 (without the post-seminar support)

Free (for Elite, Premium, and Standard level TIR Answer Center Subscribers)

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