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Maybe if you send them a message through Twitter.....

I ended up calling the Practitioner hotline, twice, and faxed 2848, twice, to get the answers I needed. Only took about 90 minutes total... First agent stated that client had no CP2000 so no worries. Called state back, challenged how they could have received a CP2000. Was told they had to have some documentation. Soooo, back to hotline, again. Second agent went deeper and discovered CP2000 resolved while first agent simply did not see one 'active.' So I have dutifully chastised client by email for not having provided this information last June when he paid the additional tax to IRS. Grrrr, yes I am charging for this although I normally wouldn't. Second agent sent wage transcript as well as account transcript for which I would have asked first agent had she not insisted there was no outstanding issue currently. Technically correct but not the whole story.

I still buy a pack of 25 1096's every year. I have 4-5 clients that need to send out 1099's. I don't even know how to efile a 1099, but I can print out the copies pretty quick. Tom Modesto, CA

We also print a copy of the compete 1096 / 1099 and W-3 / W-2 packet for the client. We do not use the red version though for the client copy. I have not used the red version since we started e-filing 1099s several years ago.

I print it to go with the Payer copies, for my clients. Those "in the know" want/expect to see it. And once, some years ago, a lower-than-expected 1096 total clued in a client that he had missed a contractor - we were able to file the missing 1099 on time. He would not have looked through the stack; he just saw the total and thought "Wait, something's not right here." So I'll keep printing it as long as I can.

Have you tried smoke signals? Although it might be hard getting those reinforced concrete buildings to catch...

I do two of them per year. My total number of 1099's are 5.

If you don't use the 1099-G, you'll never get a red error. Just sayin'!