Help! This should not be income.

I live in one unit of a condo duplex, the other unit was owned by the bank after the guy lost his job and fail to pay mortgage. The Home insurance of our duplex was covered by a single policy which has my name as the contact person. During the time the bank took ownership of the other unit, the bank did not pay its share (half) of the insurance premium. Fear to lose coverage, I had to pay in full to maintain insurance coverage. Evetually I had to go to the small claim court to get back exactly what they owed me. However, the bank through its attorney sent me the check as 1099misc. Now there is the problem, I just got a letter from IRS stating that I failed to report this "income".

 

My questions:

1. Was the payment as 1099misc normal?   

2. IRS asked me to either amend my tax return or contact the lawyer to correct the mistake. what should I do?

Thanks very much for help!
 

所有跟帖： 

• 1099 misc is normal -lexm5- ♂ (512 bytes) () 11/10/2014 postreply 16:20:39

• Still seems not right. -灰木耳- ♂ (420 bytes) () 11/11/2014 postreply 05:09:13

• 我的理解，這個1099應該是給保險公司的，你隻是代付。你有cpa嗎？問一下吧。不過是要額外收費的。你也可以自家跟irs電話聯係一 -我也有話說- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2014 postreply 05:56:02

• 1099misc很正常。你可以重做tax把付的保險做開銷抵掉 -味苦- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/11/2014 postreply 06:22:38

• You should ask the bank to file corrected 1099 and 1096 with IRS -Flower_River- ♀ (397 bytes) () 11/11/2014 postreply 21:54:05