How well do you know your 1099 reporting?
Eighteen short browser games built on the real rules: sort the mail before the deadlines bite, find the right box at speed, crack IRS name controls, route state 1099s, stamp treaty rates, code a 1042-S, inspect W-8s, race the filing calendar, call IRS TIN Matching codes and get through IRIS. Every answer comes from the same sources as the rest of the site.
Payers, 1099s and IRS notices
Inbox Zero: Notice Season
Sort W-9s, CP2100s, returned B-Notices and 972CG letters into the right bin before the IRS clocks run out.
Play now →Which Box?
A payment slides in, the clock runs: pick the right 1099 form and box before the timer bar empties.
Play now →Name Control Detective
Crack the four-character IRS name control on 16 case files before the clock runs out.
Play now →The Tip Shuffle
Deal tipped workers, then play the right occupation codes into the W-2 or 1099 box.
Play now →Penalty Drop
Drop late and wrong 1099s down a peg board, hit the $60 tier and call the right IRS rule to pay nothing.
Play now →Escape the Filing Room
Locked in the filing room on January 30: crack seven 1099 puzzles before the clock hits midnight.
Play now →Foreign payees, states, deadlines and TINs
Fifty-State Sort
Route each 1099 to CF/SF, a direct state filing or nothing at all, and fill in a map of 50 states and DC.
Play now →Treaty Passport
A foreign payee's passport lands on your desk: stamp the right withholding rate, 30% or the treaty rate.
Play now →The 1042-S Slot Machine
Spin and nudge the reels to the right 1042-S codes: income, chapter 3 and 4 exemptions, recipient status.
Play now →Form Inspector
Run the W-8 desk: hand each foreign payee the right form, then approve or reject the forms that come back.
Play now →Deadline Dash
Filings fly in and the clock runs: tap each one's 2027 due date on the calendar before time is up.
Play now →Real or Fake TIN?
Swipe SSNs, ITINs and EINs as valid or impossible, name the TIN type, then decode IRS TIN matching codes.
Play now →Match Code Rush
Vendor records roll in: predict the IRS TIN Matching code, then fix the record before it turns into a B-Notice.
Play now →IRIS e-filing
Reject Rescue
IRIS acknowledgments land one by one. Read the status and rule codes, then make the right next move.
Play now →Get Your TCC
Roll the weeks and race the calendar from ID.me to an approved IRIS TCC before the 2027 due dates.
Play now →CSV Cleanup Crew
Turn a messy vendor export into an upload-ready IRIS portal CSV: map the headings, fix the bad cells, split the file.
Play now →Schema Surgeon
Operate on IRIS A2A transmissions: find the broken XML nodes, fix them, and get Accepted in ATS.
Play now →FIRE to IRIS: The Move
Sort FIRE-era filing habits into still true, changed or gone before the IRIS season starts.
Play now →The games simplify on purpose. When a round teaches a rule, the page under the game explains it properly, with the IRS source; for real filings use the guides and calculators.