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For years, the rule was simple: do more than $600 of work for a client, and a 1099 showed up in January. That number just changed, and if you drive, deliver, freelance, or run a side hustle, you’re going to feel it. Starting with payments made in 2026, a client or platform only has to send you a 1099-NEC once they’ve paid you $2,000 or more in the year. The old $600 trigger is gone.
On the surface that sounds like less paperwork, and it is. But it creates a quieter problem most people don’t see coming. Fewer 1099s means fewer tidy documents proving what you earned, right when a landlord or lender asks you to prove it. So let’s cover both halves of this: what you still owe the IRS, and how you show your income to anyone who needs to see it. The money you made is exactly as real as it was last year. The paper trail is just thinner, and that’s fixable.
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