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Form 1096 is a cover sheet used to mail forms for reporting non-employee income to the IRS. If you're a small business, odds are you'll mainly be using it to submit Form 1099, the form you use to tell the IRS whenever you've paid an independent contractor more than $600 in a financial year.

To order official IRS information returns, which include a scannable Form 1096 for filing with the IRS, visit www.IRS.gov/orderforms. Click on Employer and Information Returns, and we'll mail you the forms you request and their instructions, as well as any publications you may order.

Form 1096 is a cover sheet used to mail forms for reporting non-employee income to the IRS. If you're a small business, odds are you'll mainly be using it to submit Form 1099, the form you use to tell the IRS whenever you've paid an independent contractor more than $600 in a financial year.

Attention filers of Form 1096: The official printed version of this IRS form is scannable, but a copy, printed from this website, is not. Do not print and file a Form 1096 downloaded from this website; a penalty may be imposed for filing with the IRS information return forms that can't be scanned.

First, enter the name of your business (under "FILER's name") and address; the name of the person to contact; and that person's email address, phone number, and fax number. Enter your employer ID number (EIN) in box 1 or your Social Security number in box 2 if you don't have an EIN.

You must submit a separate 1096 for every type of information return you prepared, even if you prepared only one of each kind. If you have 250 or more of any type of information return, you must electronically submit that type of return instead of using Form 1096.

You must mail or hand Form 1099 MISC Copy B and Form 1099 MISC Copy 2 to each independent contractor/partnership/LLC by January 31st. You must mail Form 1096 and the accompany 1099 MISC Copy A forms (the 1096 and 1099 Copy A forms must be together) to the IRS by February 28th.

IRS Form 1096 is a compilation form, which provides totals for all information forms that you submitted to the IRS and recipients. Form 1096 must be submitted for every type of information return you provided a recipient.

First, enter the name of your business (under "FILER's name") and address; the name of the person to contact; and that person's email address, phone number, and fax number. Enter your employer ID number (EIN) in box 1 or your Social Security number in box 2 if you don't have an EIN.