Keep in touch with the payer to verify that the bookkeeper files a corrected Form 1099-NEC with the IRS – corrected to your actual $1,778 amount. If they do this, you shouldn’t have any issue. This will put the IRS on notice that the previous form has been superseded.
When they get your copy of the corrected form to you, it’ll have the CORRECTED box checked on top.
You can continue to try to contact the IRS, but they probably would just tell you the same thing I am.
It’s possible that you could be audited if this isn’t taken care of by the payer but, frankly, the IRS has bigger fish to fry.
