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Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income, is used to report rents, royalties, prizes and awards and other fixed determinable income.

Report on Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Information, or Form 1099-NEC, Nonemployee Compensation, only when payments are made in the course of your trade or business. Personal payments are not reportable. You are engaged in a trade or business if you operate for gain or profit. However, nonprofit organizations are considered to be engaged in a trade or business and are subject to these reporting requirements. Other organizations subject to these reporting requirements include trusts of qualified pension or profit-sharing plans of employers, certain organizations exempt from tax under section 501(c) or (d), farmers' cooperatives that are exempt from tax under section 521, and widely held fixed investment trusts. Payments by federal, state, or local government agencies are also reportable. See the specific instructions for each form, within these combined instructions, for the types of payments that are to be reported.