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Hello all -
This seemed like a good place to ask this question. Over the weekend, I received a 1099-MISC (tax form) in the mail from an institution I interviewed at last year. The form listed the amount of money I was reimbursed for my travel expenses to interview there as "non-employee compensation."
Besides the fact that I already submitted my tax returns this year and will need to amend them, I'm a bit perturbed by this. I don't consider that money "income" in any sense of the word. Though admittedly I don't have a lot of interview experience, so I guess I don't know what's normal.
Do you know if this is a regular practice and if I should be expecting three more of these to show up soon (for the other three places I interviewed)?
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When I get travel reimbursement etc. for speaking engagements I generally get a 1099 for it -- you need to claim reimbursed business expenses somewhere. (Yes, I'm so specific, but this is why we have an accountant do ours!) So reimbursed interview expenses probably fall under the same thing?
Rachel Singer Gordon / rachel@lisjobs.comFind a library job: http://www.lisjobs.comThe Liminal Librarian: http://www.lisjobs.com/blog
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I have never received any from interview reimbursements, and I have yet to receive any 1099 this year from the 2008 interviews. I have received 1099 for travel before, when I went as a speaker. Maybe this one place is hyper-careful about this sort of thing. Or maybe the law changed. If you claim travel as an expense on your taxes, I would think you need to list the 1099 as income. And, I think I would check with someone who knows something about tax law.
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You should ask a tax expert to see what you should do. Just because you received the form that does not mean it should be listed that way on your taxes. I suspect to reimburse you, they needed to add you as a "vendor" in their system to issue money. As a result, the paperwork is automatically issued.
Brian C. Gray Head of Reference & Engineering Librarian Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University http://blog.case.edu/bcg8bcg8@case.edu
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