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Hello,

With the retirement of the FIRE system for e-filing 1099s. I was wondering what people's plans were for the IRIS switch. We've already completed the TCC application. However, I am wondering if it would be in our best interest to find a third party to e-file instead. We use Workday and have historically downloaded the file from there and uploaded directly into FIRE. It looks like Workday is working on the new format requirements for IRIS. From what I can find, you can only file 250 returns at a time in the new IRIS portal system. There is also no option for bulk corrections. You have to manually enter them into the portal. This seems like a down grade. I feel like maybe finding a vendor that can do A2A filing would be better. Has anyone already filed 1099s through IRIS yet?

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Madison King, CPA
Executive Director of Tax and Reporting
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana Systems Office
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We stopped uploading 1099s with our 2023 Tax filings.  We use Track1099 which was purchased by Avalara to produce and file our 1099 returns.  Our filing numbers are over 300.  I have no issues with this online software, I'm able to import our data with their import template, make corrections as needed, mail and/or e-deliver the forms to the recipients.   

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Mary Rizzo
Director of Accounting & Financial Operations
Culinary Institute of America
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We use our outside tax consulting firm to file on our behalf which works well for us. 

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Catherine Duriske
Assistant Vice President for Financial Reporting
Monmouth University
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Madison,

We use Banner ERP at St. Louis Community College.  Banner 1099 code only supported the FIRE method for 2025.  Banner is supposed to deliver new code for 2026 filing for 1099 and 1098-T.  We have been using FIRE, and still did for 2025 since Banner did not support IRIS.  Plan is to use IRIS for 2026.

We do use third party for 1098-T print and mail (and for students to view their forms) and that third party does the IRS filing for 1098-T.  We use the Banner IRS file to get our student data to them, so they will have to modify their coding for 2026 to handle the IRIS file formats.

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John Dickey
Finance Functional Lead
St. Louis Community College
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We also use Workday at Iowa State University and plan to continue to e-file ourselves.  I have used IRIS in the past to file a 1099-K and find the software to be intuitive and easy to use.  As Workday generates the e-file csv file automatically, we don't see the need to pay another business to do it for us.  However, as Workday doesn't allow for digital distribution of the 1099 forms, we plan to use a third party software to help with us with that.  We have not settled on the company yet but are leaning towards Avalara.

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Matthew Devick
Tax Analyst
Iowa State University
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