Tax filing

This section helps you file year-end tax forms for the contractors you pay through Wingspan: Form 1099-NEC, Form 1099-MISC (Box 6, medical and health care payments), and Canadian T4A slips. It covers preparing your contractor and payment data, generating forms, fixing them before filing, filing and delivering them, and correcting them afterward.

You run 1099 generation, filing, delivery, and corrections in the Wingspan web app. The V3 API covers the data that feeds your forms: payees, tax information, off-platform payments, and electronic delivery consent. Each page says which parts you can do through the API today.

This isn't tax or legal advice. Consult a qualified tax professional about your filing obligations.

Pages, in reading order

1. 1099 filing overview: What Wingspan files, the season checklist, and what the API covers.
2. Guidelines for a successful 1099 season: The checks that prevent most year-end problems.
3. Set up 1099 filing: Payer information, form type, calculation settings, state settings, and team permissions.
4. Add contractors and off-platform payments: Get every recipient and every payment into Wingspan, one at a time or in bulk.
5. Generate 1099s: Calculate amounts and statuses, TIN verification, grouped forms, and multi-account organizations.
6. 1099 statuses: What each filing status means and what moves a form between them.
7. Recipient information logic: How Wingspan decides which name, TIN, and address go on a form.
8. Update and split tax forms: Change amounts, recipient details, and statuses before filing, and handle mid-year TIN changes.
9. File and deliver 1099s: Submit to the IRS and states, and how contractors receive their forms.
10. Correct tax forms: Payer-initiated and contractor-requested corrections after the IRS accepts a form.
11. State filing: How Wingspan picks the filing state, and state-by-state requirements.
12. Canadian T4A filing: How T4A slips are prepared and delivered for Canadian contractors.
13. Contractor experience: The emails and screens your contractors see, and what you should send them.
14. Contractor FAQ template: Questions and answers you can publish in your own help center.
15. Responsibilities and limitations: What Wingspan support handles, what stays with you, and what Wingspan doesn't file.
16. Payer FAQ: Common questions from payers, including API questions.

For an end-to-end API view of the data you prepare for year-end, see the recipe Year-end 1099 at scale.