So I thought IRIS was going to be a solution for me.  An accountant of over 40 years and many family businesses.  Some EIN and some sole proprietors.  Used TurboTax Quick Employer Forms for maybe 10+ years with absolutely no problems. It was a fantastic software and handled all the 1099's I needed to file. This past year for 2023, Turbotax revamped their software and it is now junk.  I had a horrible time getting around in the program and several links would not work.  It took 3 times the effort to get 1099's done and had to send several feedbacks about all the problems and failures in the software.  Never heard back from any of them.  Then in late January, they started rejecting businesses filing that have a social security number.  Of course because the IRS does not open up for efiling until mid to late January, you are already behind the gun in figuring out what to do.  Their standard reply was there was something wrong with the data.  There is nothing wrong with the data.  This is the same data repeated every year for years with no problems. Ironically one of the businesses with a social security number also worked for a business with an EIN to receive a 1099.  His 1099 was NOT rejected by Turbotax with the business with an EIN efiling.  

I knew there was nothing wrong with his data but I saw that Turbotax would not efile for businesses with social security numbers.  Those were the ONLY ones rejected by Turbotax in January 2024.  All the other businesses with EIN efiled successfully. I went on a community blog and tried to get help for this problem and finally near the end of January had to scramble for paper forms and do it the old way to get those two businesses filed for 1099's.  When I heard about IRIS , I thought yes, a solution for those two businesses.  I then attempted to get one signed up for IRIS.  The ID.me account caused so many problems trying to get it up and running and verified.  I ended up called IRS about that problem and then we discussed IRIS.  That is when I discovered that IRIS won't let businesses with social security numbers efile with them.  Wow.  Thousands of business cannot use IRIS. 

Well then I saw you can become a transmitter with an IRIS account and efile for other businesses.  I said, yes, I am a subchapter S corporation I will set up IRIS and efile for my two family businesses with social security numbers with IRIS and ignore that Quick employer forms will not fix their problem probably ever.  Then I was told NO I can't get an IRIS account because even though I have an EIN, I only have one employee. me.  You have to have a business with two employees to join IRIS.  What!  Again thousands of businesses with EIN cannot use IRIS.  I have to assume that this information given to me is correct as I am seeing other blogs talk about it.  So so disappointing because these two businesses are left to use paper forms to file their 1099's which is a hassle and we are trying to get away from paper.  Or pay a lot of money to efile to a 3rd party software that will charge $100+ when you just need to send 1-2 1099's each year.  That is ridiculous.  So I will have to continue to purchase paper 1099's forms for these two businesses for a max of probably less than 10 forms for the two businesses combined.  Very very disappointing all the way around.  Failure by Turbotax and now failure by IRS to get a portal that will help everyone!!