Hi David, This portion of the healthcare law was very controversial due to the reporting requirements that it would have put on small businesses. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-14/obama-signs-law-repealing-business-tax-reporting-mandate-1-.html As Tom noted, it was repealed a couple of weeks ago - see link above for bloomberg article discussing it. Sarah Thompson Thompson Business Solutions (413) 559-8123 ________________________________ From: Tom Kopec <tek at acm.org> To: David Korpiewski <davidk at cs.umass.edu> Cc: email list Hidden-Tech <Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> Sent: Mon, May 2, 2011 3:54:02 PM Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] 1099 law update? ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. Repeal was signed into law 4/14/2011. On 5/2/2011 11:18 AM, David Korpiewski wrote: > Hi everyone, > As I'm sure most of you know, there is a "hidden" 1099 law that was > put into the health care reform act signed by Obama. I have heard that > anything over 600 dollars purchased with the intent to write off against > taxes needs to be 1099'ed back to the store it was purchased from. So > for example buying a laptop computer for 601 dollars from Costco > requires that we 1099 Costco at the end of the year. _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20110502/caa7e9c5/attachment.html