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Read the -Misc details, at this section:
"Payments to attorneys.
The term “attorney” includes a law firm or other provider of legal services. Attorneys' fees of $600 or more paid in the course of your trade or business are reportable in box 1 of Form 1099-NEC, under section 6041A(a)(1).
Gross proceeds paid to attorneys.
Under section 6045(f), report in box 10 payments that:"
Read All The Way.
Then, read the -NEC section:
"Payments to attorneys.
The term “attorney” includes a law firm or other provider of legal services. Attorneys' fees of $600 or more paid in the course of your trade or business are reportable in box 1 of Form 1099-NEC, under section 6041A(a)(1).
Gross proceeds paid to attorneys.
Gross proceeds are not reportable by you in box 1 of Form 1099-NEC. See the Form 1099-MISC, box 10, instructions, earlier.
Payments to corporations for legal services.
The exemption from reporting payments made to corporations does not apply to payments for legal services. Therefore, you must report attorneys' fees (in box 1 of Form 1099-NEC) or gross proceeds (in box 10 of Form 1099-MISC) as described earlier to corporations that provide legal services."
Because, as I noted, you have a third-party relationship, or the one attorney did in fact work for the other, and not on behalf of that client directly, or they both worked directly, or?
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