Prior to 2022, third-party payment processors issued form 1099-K if the total number of transactions exceeded 200 AND the total amount of the transactions exceeded $20,000 for businesses. Here are some examples. <\/span> Scenario 2:<\/strong> A provider had 1000 transactions, but the total sales amount was $19,000. A 1099-K was not issued, because even though the number of transactions exceeded 200, the amount of sales was less than $20,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As taxpayers became aware of the reporting requirements, many did not report the income on their taxes. There were also taxpayers that used more than one third party processor in order to avoid reporting requirements. This act is called <\/span>structuring<\/span><\/a>, and it\u2019s illegal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) lowered the reporting threshold for third-party networks that process payments for those doing business. Now a single transaction exceeding $600 can trigger a 1099-K. But, why?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n While the media will have you believe that all of this happened because of a President and his administration, this change in reporting was coming regardless of who was in office. Here\u2019s why: <\/span> TIGTA reviewed 2017 tax returns to compile their report. The report states, \u201cTIGTA identified 314,586 business taxpayers with $335.5 billion in Form 1099-K income that appeared to have a filing obligation, but were not identified as nonfilers by the IRS.\u201d \u2026\u201dTIGTA identified a significant number (325,060 business non-filers and 103,991 individual non-filers with $203 billion and $3 billion in Form 1099-K income, respectively) that were not selected to be worked.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Essentially TIGTA revealed the abuse of 1099-K reporting requirements and recommended the IRS fix it. That\u2019s why the law changed. It had nothing to do with the President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After ARPA 2021 was released, there were several social media posts created about the \u2018Zelle Loophole\u2019. Zelle is a money transfer application that allows you to transfer money directly from one bank to another. It is not a third-party payment processor. Because of that, Zelle currently has no reporting requirements. <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Scenario 1<\/strong>: A provider had 3 transactions totaling $25,000. A 1099-K was not issued, because the number of transactions did not exceed 200.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/etstaxrelief.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1099k-200-transactions.webp\"){kind=spacer}
<\/p>\nWho is TIGTA?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/span>On December 30, 2020, The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) released a report: <\/span>Billions in Potential Taxes Went Unaddressed From Unfiled Returns and Underreported Income by Taxpayers That Received Form 1099-K Income<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 TIGTA is an independent organization that provides oversight of the IRS. <\/span><\/p>\nWhat about the Zelle \u201cLoophole\u201d?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/span>Social media influencers were suggesting that using the \u201cZelle Loophole\u201d was a legal way to circumvent the 1099-K reporting requirements. This is absolutely and unequivocally FALSE.<\/span><\/p>\n