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1099-NEC filing

ghaffoorsh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:33:29 GMT

I did a one time job for a week at sports camp and received a 1099-NEC. What is these filed as self-contractor or sporadic Activity

Re: 1099-NEC filing

AliciaP1 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:43:58 GMT

If you do not intend to continue contracting for work of this type then you report this form as a "sporadic activity".

Re: 1099-NEC filing

ghaffoorsh — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:45:39 GMT

It was a one time thing, i do not usually do this camp work. The camp business owner need help last min. It was first time doing it for me. Is it still that?

Re: 1099-NEC filing

ColeenD3 — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 16:59:56 GMT

There is no one determining factor that determines if it is sporadic or not, but your intention to help someone, rather than pursuing income, gives more credence to it being sporadic.

Sporadic activity

In other instances, however, activities that might seem sporadic, in the sense that they are engaged in according to no particular schedule, have been held to be self-employment, based primarily on the number of times they recurred during a tax year. In Revenue Ruling 77-356, a member of Congress received payment for giving speeches, for which there was no pattern to the number of speeches given, the amount of time they required or remuneration received. During the year in question, the taxpayer made 10 speeches, for which $1,500 was received. Their frequency indicated “a degree of recurrence, continuity, and availability for speech making,” and thus were considered self-employment.

On the other hand, a taxpayer who was paid for an “occasional” speech and did not seek such engagements or indicate availability for them was not self-employed (Revenue Ruling 55-431).