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 "id": "tax1099",
 "name": "Tax1099",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "tax1099.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Per-form e-filing of 1099s, W-2s and related forms, cheaper per form at high volume, with a subscription for frequent filers. TIN matching, W-9 requests, state filing and corrections can each carry their own charge, so tally the add-ons.",
 "best_for": "businesses and accountants who need to e-file 1099s, W-2s and related forms accurately and cheaply, especially seasonal or higher-volume filers",
 "skip_if": "you only file one or two forms a year (the IRS's own free options may suffice) or you want full bookkeeping rather than just the filing step",
 "honest_knock": "Per-form pricing is cheap for a handful of 1099s, but it's metered: TIN matching, W-9 requests, state filing and corrections can each carry their own charge. A business filing across many recipients and states should tally the add-ons, not just the headline per-form rate. It's a filing tool, not a bookkeeping system; it assumes your payee data is already clean.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$249",
  "entry_price_terms": "a year (multi-user access, 250 free TIN matches)",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-09-08, re-read 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-12 on tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing) Filing is graduated volume pricing, not a flat rate that falls: each band is billed at its own rate and the bill is the sum across bands. The Tiered Pricing Charts on the page, with the form-type selector on IRS eFile 1099, 1098, 1095, W-2, W-2C, W-2G, list the first 20 forms at $2.99 each, forms 21-150 at $2.59, 151-250 at $1.99, 251-500 at $1.42 and 501-1,000 at $0.72, with 1,000+ on request. On those bands 30 forms come to $85.70 and 600 forms to $1,022.50, about $1.70 a form. The worked 600-form example that used to sit higher up the page, with middle rates the chart does not show, is gone on 12 October 2026. Three eFiling plans: Essential is free, Teams (formerly eFile Plus) is $249 a year and adds multi-user access and 250 free TIN matches, and Scale (formerly Enterprise) is $349 a year and adds workflow, user and action management, API access and Notice Management (otherwise $199 a unit). TIN matching is not free on Essential: real-time is $1.00 a request and bulk $150 per 10,000 records; the 24-hour option at $0.37 that the page listed on 1 October is no longer on it. Other add-ons: eDelivery $0.50 a unit (it was $0.25 on 1 October), print and mail $1.95 a form (was $1.90) (plus a $1 rush fee in the last five days of the season through 2 February), foreign mail $4.99 a form, state reconciliation $4.99 a payer, and W-9/W-8 requests at $1.00 for one, $7.00 for 25, $45.00 for 200 and $95.00 for 1,000.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
  "source_url": "https://www.tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing",
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "changed",
   "tracked_since": "2026-08-06",
   "last_read": "2026-11-02",
   "read_days": 14,
   "stable": null,
   "changes": [
    {
     "plan": "eDelivery",
     "from": "0.25",
     "to": "0.50",
     "unit": "USD per unit",
     "between": [
      "2026-10-01",
      "2026-10-12"
     ],
     "direction": "up",
     "quote": "Other add-ons: eDelivery $0.50 a unit (it was $0.25 on 1 October), print and mail $1.95 a form (was $1.90) (plus a $1 rush fee in the last five days of the season through 2 February), foreign mail $4.99 a form, state reconciliation $4.99 a payer, and W-9/W-8 requests at $1.00 for one, $7.00 for 25, $45.00 for 200 and $95.00 for 1,000.",
     "source_url": "https://www.tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing",
     "read_at": "2026-10-12"
    },
    {
     "plan": "Print and mail",
     "from": "1.90",
     "to": "1.95",
     "unit": "USD per form",
     "between": [
      "2026-10-01",
      "2026-10-12"
     ],
     "direction": "up",
     "quote": "Other add-ons: eDelivery $0.50 a unit (it was $0.25 on 1 October), print and mail $1.95 a form (was $1.90) (plus a $1 rush fee in the last five days of the season through 2 February), foreign mail $4.99 a form, state reconciliation $4.99 a payer, and W-9/W-8 requests at $1.00 for one, $7.00 for 25, $45.00 for 200 and $95.00 for 1,000.",
     "source_url": "https://www.tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing",
     "read_at": "2026-10-12"
    }
   ],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "usage_metered",
   "label": "Usage-metered",
   "evidence": "Per-form pricing is cheap for a handful of 1099s, but it's metered: TIN matching, W-9 requests, state filing and corrections can each carry their own charge.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
   "source_url": "https://www.tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Other add-ons: eDelivery $0.50 a unit (it was $0.25 on 1 October), print and mail $1.95 a form (was $1.90) (plus a $1 rush fee in the last five days of the season through 2 February), foreign mail $4.99 a form, state reconciliation $4.99 a payer, and W-9/W-8 requests at $1.00 for one, $7.00 for 25, $45.00 for 200 and $95.00 for 1,000.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
   "source_url": "https://www.tax1099.com/tax-1099-efile-pricing"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "TaxBandits or the IRS IRIS portal",
  "why": "TaxBandits is a close paid equivalent; IRIS is free but barer: Tax1099 wins on integrations and bulk workflows"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/tax1099.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/tax1099-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/tax1099/",
  "vendor_site": "https://tax1099.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://get.tax1099.com/0ivysaedzf4n",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "tax1099:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tax1099:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tax1099:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "tax1099:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}