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1099-MISC form is typically sent to each entity paid during the year at least $600 in rents services performed by a non-employee; prizes and awards; medical and health care payments; crop insurance proceeds; certain cash payments for fish or other aquatic life; certain cash paid from a notional principal contract; certain payments to an attorney; certain fishing boat proceeds; at least $10 in royalties or broker payments; at least $5,000 of certain direct sales; certain wages paid to an employee after the employee died; certain income from a non-qualified deferred compensation plan; and certain other income.An exception to the above is that payments to a corporation are not typically required to be reported on a 1099-MISC. (Other types of entities include an individual, sole proprietor, partnership, trust, and an estate.)Form 1099-A form reports information about certain acquisition or abandonment of property.Form 1099-B form reports information certain proceeds from broker and barter change transactions.Form 1099-C form reports certain cancellation of debt.Form 1099-D form reports certain information about property from an acquisition of control or substantial change in a corporation’s capital structure.Form 1099-DIV form reports certain dividends and distributions.Form 1099-G form reports certain payments from a governmental entity.Form 1099-H form reports certain health insurance premiums paid on behalf of certain individuals.Form 1099-INT form reports certain interest payments.Form 1099-K form reports certain payment card transactions and certain third-party network transactions.Form 1099-LS form reports certain payments for a life insurance policy sale.Form 1099-LTC form reports certain long-term care and accelerated death benefits.Form 1099-OID form reports original issues discount.Form 1099-PATR form reports taxable distributions received from cooperatives.Form 1099-Q form reports payments from 529 education programs and 530 education programs.Form 1099-QA form reports distributions from ABLE accounts.Form 1099-R form reports distributions and direct rollovers from certain retirement accounts.Form 1099-S form reports certain proceeds from real estate transactions.Form 1099-SA form reports distributions from certain qualified health accounts.Form 1099-SB form reports the sellers’ interest in a life insurance contract.See instructions for these forms for more information, including important details and exceptions. See a tax professional for advice.https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099msc.pdfhttps://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099gi.pdf

It will depend upon your total taxable income. And also, as discussed previously, dividends may be treated as qualifying and non-qualifying dividends. I do not have enough information to give you more information, however, you may want to read through https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p17.pdf Pages 64-66.Dividends Used To Buy More StockThe corporation in which you own stock may have a dividend reinvestment plan. This plan lets you choose to use your dividends to buy (through an agent) more shares of stock in the corporation instead of receiving the dividends in cash. Most mutual funds also permit shareholders to automatically reinvest distributions in more shares in the fund, instead of receiving cash. If you use your dividends to buy more stock at a price equal to its fair market value, you still must report the dividends as income. If you are a member of a dividend reinvestment plan that lets you buy more stock at a price less than its fair market value, you must report as dividend income the fair market value of the additional stock on the dividend payment date. You also must report as dividend income any service charge subtracted from your cash dividends before the dividends are used to buy the additional stock. But you may be able to deduct the service charge.In some dividend reinvestment plans, you can invest more cash to buy shares of stock at a price less than fair market value. If you choose to do this, you must report as dividend income the difference between the cash you invest and the fair market value of the stock you buy. When figuring this amount, use the fair market value of the stock on the dividend payment date.Money Market FundsReport amounts you receive from money market funds as dividend income. Money market funds are a type of mutual fund and shouldn’t be confused with bank money market accounts that pay interest.Capital Gain DistributionsCapital gain distributions (also called capital gain dividends) are paid to you or credited to your account by mutual funds (or other regulated investment companies) and real estate investment trusts (REITs). They will be shown in box 2a of the Form 1099-DIV you receive from the mutual fund or REIT. Report capital gain distributions as long-term capital gains, regardless of how long you owned your shares in the mutual fund or REIT.Qualified Opportunity Fund. Effective December 22, 2017, IRC 1400Z-2 provides a temporary deferral of inclusion in gross income for capital gains invested in Qualified Opportunity Funds, and permanent exclusion of capital gains from the sale or exchange of an investment in the Qualified Opportunity Fund if the investment is held for at least 10 years. See Form 8949 instructions on how to report your election to defer eligible gains invested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund. For additional information, please see Opportunity Zones Frequently Asked Questions available at An official website of the United States government newsroom/opportunity-zones-frequently-askedquestions.Undistributed capital gains of mutual funds and REITs.Some mutual funds and REITs keep their long-term capital gains and pay tax on them. You must treat your share of these gains as distributions, even though you didn't actually receive them. However, they aren't included on Form 1099-DIV. Instead, they are reported to you in box 1a of Form 2439. Report undistributed capital gains (box 1a of Form 2439) as long-term capital gains on Schedule D (Form 1040), line 11, column (h). The tax paid on these gains by the mutual fund or REIT is shown in box 2 of Form 2439. You take credit for this tax by including it on Schedule 5 (Form 1040), line 74a, and following the instructions there.Basis adjustment.Increase your basis in your mutual fund, or your interest in a REIT, by the difference between the gain you report and the credit you claim for the tax paid.Additional information: For more information on the treatment of distributions from mutual funds, see Pub. 550.Nondividend DistributionsA non-dividend distribution is a distribution that isn't paid out of the earnings and profits of a corporation or a mutual fund. You should receive a Form 1099-DIV or other statement showing the nondividend distribution. On Form 1099-DIV, a nondividend distribution will be shown in box 3. If you don't receive such a statement, you report the distribution as an ordinary dividend.Basis adjustment.A nondividend distribution reduces the basis of your stock. It isn't taxed until your basis in the stock is fully recovered. This nontaxable portion is also called a return of capital; it is a return of your investment in the stock of the company. If you buy stock in a corporation in different lots at different times, and you cannot definitely identify the shares subject to the nondividend distribution, reduce the basis of your earliest purchases first. When the basis of your stock has been reduced to zero, report any additional nondividend distribution you receive as a capital gain.Whether you report it as a long-term or short-term capital gain depends on how long you have held the stock. Example: You bought stock in 2005 for $100. In 2008, you received a nondividend distribution of $80. You didn't include this amount in your income, but you reduced the basis of your stock to $20. You received a nondividend distribution of $30 in 2018. The first $20 of this amount reduced your basis to zero. You report the other $10 as a long-term capital gain for 2018. You must report as a long-term capital gain any nondividend distribution you receive on this stock in later years.Liquidating DistributionsLiquidating distributions, sometimes called liquidating dividends, are distributions you receive during a partial or complete liquidation of a corporation. These distributions are, at least in part, one form of a return of capital. They may be paid in one or more installments. You will receive Form 1099-DIV from the corporation showing you the amount of the liquidating distribution in box 9 or 10.For more information on liquidating distributions, see chapter 1 of Pub. 550. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf page 2Distributions of Stock and Stock RightsDistributions by a corporation of its own stock are commonly known as stock dividends. Stock rights (also known as stock options) are distributions by a corporation of rights to acquire the corporation's stock. Generally, stock dividends and stock rights aren't taxable to you, and you don't report them on your return. Taxable stock dividends and stock rights. Distributions of stock dividends and stock rights are taxable to you if any of the following apply.1. You or any other shareholder have the choice to receive cash or other property instead of stock or stock rights.2. The distribution gives cash or other property to some shareholders and an increase in the percentage interest in the corporation's assets or earnings and profits to other shareholders.3. The distribution is in convertible preferred stock and has the same result as in (2).4. The distribution gives preferred stock to some common stock shareholders and common stock to other common stock shareholders.5. The distribution is on preferred stock. (The distribution, however, isn't taxable if it is an increase in the conversion ratio of convertible preferred stock made solely to take into account a stock dividend, stock split, or similar event that would otherwise result in reducing the conversion right.)The term “stock” includes rights to acquire stock, and the term “shareholder” includes a holder of rights or of convertible securities. If you receive taxable stock dividends or stock rights, include their fair market value at the time of distribution in your income.Preferred stock redeemable at a premium.If you receive preferred stock having a redemption price higher than its issue price, the difference (the redemption premium) generally is taxable as a constructive distribution of additional stock on the preferred stock. For more information, see chapter 1 of Pub. 550. Basis. (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf page 2)Your basis in stock or stock rights received in a taxable distribution is their fair market value when distributed. If you receive stock or stock rights that aren't taxable to you, see Stocks and Bonds under Basis of Investment Property in chapter 4 of Pub. 550 for information on how to figure their basis. (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdf page 35)Fractional shares.You may not own enough stock in a corporation to receive a full share of stock if the corporation declares a stock dividend. However, with the approval of the shareholders, the corporation may set up a plan in which fractional shares aren't issued but instead are sold, and the cash proceeds are given to the shareholders. Any cash you receive for fractional shares under such a plan is treated as an amount realized on the sale of the fractional shares. Report this transaction on Form 8949, Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets. Enter your gain or loss (the difference between the cash you receive and the basis of the fractional shares sold) in column (h) of Schedule D (Form 1040) in Part I or Part II, whichever is appropriate. Report these transactions on Form 8949. Also, check the correct box to show how the transaction was reported on Form 1099-B. For more information on Form 8949 and Schedule D (Form 1040), see chapter 4 of Pub. 550. Also, see the Instructions for Form 8949 and the Instructions for Schedule D (Form 1040). Example. You own one share of common stock that you bought on January 3, 2009, for $100. The corporation declared a common stock dividend of 5% on June 30, 2018. The fair market value of the stock at the time the stock dividend was declared was $200. You were paid $10 for the fractional-share stock dividend under a plan described in the discussion above.You figure your gain or loss as follows:Fair market value of old stock ........ $200.00Fair market value of stock dividend (cash received) .................. +10.00Fair market value of old stock and stock dividend .................. $210.00Basis (cost) of old stock after the stock dividend (($200 ÷ $210) × $100) ....... $95.24Basis (cost) of stock dividend (($10 ÷ $210) × $100) .................... + 4.76Total .................... $100.00Cash received ................ $10.00Basis (cost) of stock dividend ........ − 4.76Gain $5.24Because you had held the share of stock for more than 1 year at the time the stock dividend was declared, your gain on the stock dividend is a long-term capital gain.Scrip dividends.A corporation that declares a stock dividend may issue you a scrip certificate that entitles you to a fractional share. The certificate is generally nontaxable when you receive it. If you choose to have the corporation sell the certificate for you and give you the proceeds, your gain or loss is the difference between the proceeds and the portion of your basis in the corporation's stock allocated to the certificate. However, if you receive a scrip certificate that you can choose to redeem for cash instead of stock, the certificate is taxable when you receive it. You must include its fair market value in income on the date you receive it.Other DistributionsYou may receive any of the following distributions during the year:. Exempt-interest dividends. Exempt-interest dividends you receive from a mutual fund or other regulated investment company, including those received from a qualified fund of funds in any tax year beginning after December 22, 2010, aren't included in your taxable income. Exempt-interest dividends should be shown in box 11 of Form 1099-DIV..Information-reporting requirement. Although exempt-interest dividends aren't taxable, you must show them on your tax return if you have to file a return. This is an information-reporting requirement and doesn’t change the exempt-interest dividends to taxable income.Alternative minimum tax treatment. Exempt-interest dividends paid from specified private activity bonds may be subject to the alternative minimum tax..Dividends on insurance policies. Insurance policy dividends the insurer keeps and uses to pay your premiums aren't taxable. However, you must report as taxable interest income the interest that is paid or credited on dividends left with the insurance company. If dividends on an insurance contract (other than a modified endowment contract) are distributed to you, they are a partial return of the premiums you paid. Don’t include them in your gross income until they are more than the total of all net premiums you paid for the contract. Report any taxable distributions on insurance policies on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 21..Dividends on veterans' insurance. Dividends you receive on veterans' insurance policies aren't taxable. In addition, interest on dividends left with the Department of Veterans Affairs isn't taxable..Patronage dividends. Generally, patronage dividends you receive in money from a cooperative organization are included in your income. Don’t include in your income patronage dividends you receive on:1• Property bought for your personal use, or2• Capital assets or depreciable property bought for use in your business.But you must reduce the basis (cost) of the items bought. If the dividend is more than the adjusted basis of the assets, you must report the excess as income. These rules are the same whether the cooperative paying the dividend is a taxable or tax-exempt cooperative..Alaska Permanent Fund dividends. Don’t report these amounts as dividends. Instead, include these amounts on Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 21.How To Report Dividend Income: Generally, you must use Form 1040 to report your dividend income. Report the total of your ordinary dividends on line 3b of Form 1040. Report qualified dividends on line 3a of Form 1040. If you receive capital gain distributions, you must use Form 1040.If you receive nondividend distributions required to be reported as capital gains, you must use Form 1040. Form 1099-DIV. If you owned stock on which you received $10 or more in dividends and other distributions, you should receive a Form 1099-DIV. Even if you don't receive Form 1099-DIV, you must report all your dividend income. See Form 1099-DIV for more information on how to report dividend income..Form 1040. You must complete Schedule B (Form 1040), Part II, and attach it to your Form 1040 if:1• Your ordinary dividends, which are reported on Form 1099-DIV, box 1a, are more than $1,500; or2• You received, as a nominee, dividends that actually belong to someone else.If your ordinary dividends are more than $1,500, you also must complete Schedule B (Form 1040), Part III. List on Schedule B (Form 1040), Part II, line 5, each payer's name and the ordinary dividends you received. If your securities are held by a brokerage firm (in “street name”), list the name of the brokerage firm shown on Form 1099-DIV as the payer. If your stock is held by a nominee who is the owner of record, and the nominee credited or paid you dividends on the stock, show the name of the nominee and the dividends you received or for which you were credited. Enter on line 6 the total of the amounts listed on line 5. Also, enter this total on line 3b of Form 1040..Qualified dividends. Report qualified dividends (Form 1099-DIV, box 1b) on line 3a of Form 1040. The amount in box 1b is already included in box 1a. Don’t add the amount in box 1b to, or subtract it from, the amount in box 1a. Don’t include any of the following on line 3a.• Qualified dividends you received as a nominee. See Nominees under How To Report Dividend Income in chapter 1 of Pub. 550.• Dividends on stock for which you didn't meet the holding period. See Holding period, earlier, under Qualified Dividends.• Dividends on any share of stock to the extent you are obligated (whether under a short sale or otherwise) to make related payments for positions in substantially similar or related property.• Payments in lieu of dividends, but only if you know or have reason to know the payments aren't qualified dividends.• Payments shown in Form 1099-DIV, box 1b, from a foreign corporation to the extent you know or have reason to know the payments aren't qualified dividends.If you have qualified dividends, you must figure your tax by completing the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet in the Form 1040 instructions or the Schedule D Tax Worksheet in the Schedule D (Form 1040) instructions, whichever applies. Enter qualified dividends on line 2 of the worksheet.Investment interest deducted.If you claim a deduction for investment interest, you may have to reduce the amount of your qualified dividends that are eligible for the 0%, 15%, or 20% tax rate. Reduce it by the qualified dividends you choose to include in investment income when figuring the limit on your investment interest deduction. This is done on the Qualified Dividends and Capital Gain Tax Worksheet or the Schedule D Tax Worksheet.Expenses related to dividend income.You may be able to deduct expenses related to dividend income if you itemize your deductions on Schedule A (Form 1040).For more information about how to report dividend income, see chapter 1 of Pub. 550 or the instructions for the form you must file. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p550.pdfI hope this information is helpful.