I applied for and was awarded a travel grant for $1000 from research society to attend their conference last year as a doctoral graduate student. This year, I received a 1099-NEC for it to file taxes. I was not providing a service or working for them in any way as a non-employee. How should I file this?
1. As a 1099-NEC but put it on Schedule 1 Other Income because it wasn’t compensation as a non-employee?
OR
2. As a 1099-NEC under self-employment and deduct the travel expenses that I paid? Net would be zero because the hotel alone was almost $900, not including mileage to get there and per diem for meals (I was there for 4 days)? But I’m not a self-employed individual, so would this cause red flags?
I have been in touch with the society who issued the 1099-NEC trying to get them to switch it to 1099-MISC since it was an award that I applied for, but we have 6 days left for them to do that, so I don’t think it’s happening (seeing that they haven’t figured it out in the last month since I’ve been in contact with them). If they do reissue it as a 1099-MISC, does that mean I can only put it on schedule 1 other income? Or can travel expenses be deducted from it as well?
