How to read 1098 and 1099 tax forms | Taxes and tax forms | Financial Literacy | Khan Academy

- [Instructor] Let's talk about
a few very common IRS forms

or statements that you are
likely to encounter in your life.

The first one of these
you see right over here

is called a 1098,

and there are different
types of 1098 forms.

There's a 1098, which is
to report mortgage interest

that you have paid in the past year.

There's a 1098-T, which is
for tuition payments or,

or scholarships for students, 1098-E,

which is about student loan
interest that you might pay

and might be deductible.

The whole point here is it's
about things that you have paid

that might be deductible for tax purposes.

So for example, this is a
situation where the person,

it looks like they have paid $10,000 in

mortgage interest that year.

So assuming it is deductible for them,

if they made from their job, let's say

they made $50,000 in wages
from their job, given this,

assuming it's tax deductible,

what is going to be their
actual taxable income?

Well, the way a deduction works
is you subtract it out from

your income to come up
with a new number of

what is going to be taxed.

So your tax isn't gonna
go down by $10,000.

Your to your taxable income is
going to go down by $10,000,

which will reduce your taxes
by something less than $10,000.

It's probably someplace around 10 to to 30

or 40% of that $10,000, but
it's gonna be something less,

but it will reduce your taxes.

Similarly, a 1098-E if you
paid student loan interest

and if it's tax deductible,
a similar thing might happen.

Now, another form, which
sounds almost the same

but is almost, you could really
think of it as the reverse

of a 1098 is a 1099.

A 1099 instead of reporting,

say interest that you have
paid that is tax deductible,

a 1099 reports interest

or income that you have
earned from some sources

that you now have to add
to your taxable income

to make sure you're paying taxes on it.

So right over here, this is a 1099-MSC.

You could view that as
miscellaneous information.

And what's that might be you,

let's say you did an event for someone

and they paid you money
or whatever it might be.

They have to fill out this
form, report it to the IRS,

and they, you could see
here that this person or

or whoever's getting this
form, maybe it's you,

you got $10,000 and that no
federal tax was withheld.

So you're gonna have to report this

and then also have to pay the
proportion amount of taxes.

So once again, if you go
into that situation where

before this 1099,

if you had made $50,000 from your day job,

well now you're going to
have to add this $10,000 to

your income to get your
taxable income at $60,000.

So this is, your taxes aren't
going to increase by $10,000,

but your, they're gonna increase
by some proportion of that.

But your taxable income is
definitely going to increase

by $10,000 in this situation.

And like a 1098,

there's many different types of 1099s.

There's a 1099-INT short for interest,

which I get from my bank
every year, which tells me

how much money I earned on
interest in those accounts.

1099-DIV, which tells you about dividends

that you might've gotten from investments,

1099-G if you got payments

from the government
that you need to report.

So there's more, we could
go into more detail.

You can look up the details,

but the big picture is

1099, 1098 I should say.

These are things that you have paid many,

many times in the form of
interest that might be deductible

to your taxable income.

And 1099, these are things
that someone is paying you.

It's some form of income that
you need to get taxed on.