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Have you received all your tax paperwork? Every year around this time I get questions from people who are missing a Form 1099 and aren’t sure what to do. In case you’re not familiar with the lingo, IRS Form 1099 is used to document various forms of income, including things like:

January 31st was the deadline for companies to mail out W-2 forms and 1099 forms involving other income and interest. Coming up is February 15th, the deadline for brokerages to send out 1099-B forms listing stock sale proceeds.

That means you early-birds out there (not me) are probably chomping at the bit to file your taxes! So here’s a question to you readers about last year:

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been throwing all the documents related to my 2010 taxes in a basket on the kitchen counter. At this point, I’ve either received everything, or have been told that I should access it online. What about you?

The main things that I’ve been expecting are my W-2 form from work as well as a bunch of 1099 forms. In my case, these include:

Here is a summary breakdown of our total trip expenses from our transatlantic journey. Including travel days, we spent 21 days on our journey:

Major Travel Components USD Expense Hotels $ 74.43 Cruise (including tips) $ 1,103.66 Flights $ 952.92 Food $ 322.07 Gifts/Souveniours $ 210.53 Other Transportation $ 340.74 Misc/Museums $ 55.33 Total $ 3,060

I just received the following e-mail from Half.com, where I occasionally sell used books:

Believe it or not, it’s already time to start thinking about filing your 2011 income tax return. In the coming weeks, you should be receiving your W-2 form(s), a variety of 1099 forms, etc. And if you pay estimated taxes, your 4th quarter payment is due next week (on January 17th).

Guess what? There’s just one week standing between you and the income tax filing deadline. Have you filed your tax return yet? If not, you’d better get moving!

By now, you should have long since received all of the necessary paperwork, including your W-2 and 1099 forms. If not, be sure to check out these two articles:

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After spending the last two evenings pulling our tax paperwork together, I wanted to share a little tidbit on documenting your Lending Club earnings. Here’s the scoop…

Lending Club tax paperwork

For all loans originated prior to 10/14/2008, Lending Club will issue IRS Form 1099-INT if the total interest received for all of these loans in 2009 was $10 or more.