Accountants + 1099 Reporting: The Challenge
As an accountant, preparing bank statements for 1099 reporting is a common but time-consuming task. Businesses issuing 1099s need to verify contractor payments against bank statements. Manually cross-referencing PDFs with payment records is time-consuming and error-prone.
How BankScan AI Helps Accountants with 1099 Reporting
BankScan AI lets you drag-and-drop any client's bank statement PDF and get a formatted Excel spreadsheet in seconds — ready to import into Xero, QuickBooks, or Sage. For 1099 reporting specifically, BankScan AI extracts Payments to each contractor by name and TIN, total annual amount per payee, paym automatically.
How Accountants Handle 1099 Reporting
When preparing bank statements for 1099 reporting, accountants need to Accountants typically receive client bank statements monthly, reconcile them against purchase and sales ledgers, post adjusting entries, and prepare m. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: nominal ledger, bank reconciliation, trial balance, management accounts.
How It Works
Upload bank statement PDFs
Supports all major banks. Upload Full calendar year (January 1 to December 31), as 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC are reported on a calendar year basis of statements for 1099 reporting.
AI extracts what you need
Our AI extracts Payments to each contractor by name and TIN, total annual am — formatted for accountants workflows.
Complete your 1099 reporting work
Download Excel files ready for 1099 reporting. Payments grouped by contractor/payee with annual totals, cross-referenced against W-9 information on file; separate identification of credit card payments (reported by payment processor, not payer)
Supported Banks
BankScan AI works with all major UK and US banks, including:
Features for Accountants — 1099 Reporting
- Built for Accountants — Saves an average of 45 minutes per client per month on bank reconciliation, or 6+ hours per week for a typical practice with 30 clients
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Xero, Sage, QuickBooks
- Built for 1099 Reporting — Convert bank statements to Excel to quickly filter and identify all contractor payments, verify 1099 amounts, and ensure IRS compliance before January filing deadlines.
- Key data extracted — Payments to each contractor by name and TIN, total annual amount per payee, payment method (check, ACH, wire), payments to corporations (generally exempt from 1099)
Compliance: Accountants + 1099 Reporting
When accountants prepare bank statements for 1099 reporting, specific compliance requirements apply.
- Accountants must comply with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations requiring them to verify client bank transactions. HMRC Making Tax Digital mandates quarterly digital submissions, and ICAEW/ACCA practice standards require accurate record-keeping with full audit trails.
- Legal basis: Internal Revenue Code sections 6041-6050W (information reporting requirements); IRC section 6721-6722 (penalties for failure to file or furnish correct information returns)
1099 Reporting — Built for Accountants
1099-NEC due to contractors and IRS by January 31; late filing penalties range from $60 to $310 per form depending on how late, up to $630 for intentional disregard
Try Free — Accountants + 1099 Reporting