Financial Advisors (IFAs) + 1099 Reporting: The Challenge
As financial advisor, 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 Financial Advisors (IFAs) with 1099 Reporting
Convert client bank statements to Excel for quick financial analysis, cashflow modelling, and wealth planning presentations. For 1099 reporting specifically, BankScan AI extracts Payments to each contractor by name and TIN, total annual amount per payee, paym automatically.
How Financial Advisors (IFAs) Handle 1099 Reporting
When preparing bank statements for 1099 reporting, financial advisors (ifas) need to IFAs request bank statements during fact-find meetings to assess client income, expenditure patterns, existing commitments, and savings capacity. They. BankScan AI automates the data extraction step.
Key terms you'll encounter: fact-find, suitability report, attitude to risk, capacity for loss.
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 financial advisors (ifas) 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 Financial Advisors (IFAs) — 1099 Reporting
- Built for Financial Advisors (IFAs) — Saves 30-45 minutes per client fact-find on income and expenditure analysis, with annual reviews completed 20-30 minutes faster per client
- Software compatible — Output works directly with Intelliflo, CashCalc, Excel
- 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: Financial Advisors (IFAs) + 1099 Reporting
When financial advisors (ifas) prepare bank statements for 1099 reporting, specific compliance requirements apply.
- FCA rules require IFAs to conduct thorough fact-finds and demonstrate suitability of advice. Bank statements form part of the evidence base for suitability reports. Consumer Duty obligations require advisors to demonstrate they understand client financial circumstances. Records must be retained for the FCA's required period.
- 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 Financial Advisors (IFAs)
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
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