Editorial & Fact-Check Policy
1099 Easy Guide is part of Easy Guides, a family of plain-English guides that explain confusing official processes, tax forms, paychecks, and government paperwork, in language anyone can follow. This page explains who produces our content, how we check it, and how we handle mistakes.
Who writes our guides
Our guides are produced and published by the Easy Guides editorial team, which owns and enforces our editorial standards. We are not a law firm, an accounting firm, or the IRS, and we say so plainly on every guide. We are a small independent publisher whose single job is turning official, jargon-heavy instructions into steps a normal person can act on.
How we research and write
Every guide starts from primary sources, the official documents that actually govern the topic, not other blogs. For 1099 Easy Guide, that means the IRS instructions for Forms 1099-NEC and 1099-MISC, and the IRS Self-Employed Individuals Tax Center. We link those sources directly inside each guide so you can verify anything yourself.
How we fact-check
Every federal figure on this site comes from one file we maintain, not from whatever a page happened to say when it was written. That file records the document each number came from and the date a person last checked it against that document. The current check date is 1 August 2026, against IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-32, IRS Notice 2025-67 and the Social Security Administration's 2026 wage base release.
Where a page states one of those figures, the source and the date we checked it are printed next to the number, not collected in a footnote. There are 8 such citations across 5 pages on this site. If a number has no source line, it is because it is not one of the federal figures that file governs, and we would rather show you nothing than attach a document that does not actually support it.
Accuracy and corrections
A corrections policy that has never described a correction is not evidence of anything, so here is a real one.
On 1 August 2026 we put the self-employment tax calculator under an acceptance suite, 26 assertions running against the same JavaScript this site ships to you, and deleted the duplicate page payloads Next.js had been serving alongside every page.
If you find something wrong, email [email protected] with the page and the problem. We check it against the primary source and fix confirmed mistakes at the source the page is generated from, which is the only correction that stays fixed.
This is education, not professional advice
Our guides are educational. They are not tax, legal, or financial advice, and reading them does not create a professional relationship. For advice about your specific circumstances, consult a qualified professional or the relevant official source, such as IRS.gov.
How we use tools
The self-employment tax calculator and the 1099 tax calculator run entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to be sent. Their arithmetic is covered by 66 assertions that run against the same code this site ships to you, not against a copy that might have drifted from it. A calculator that produces the wrong answer fails a build here.
Each tool also carries a section saying when it is the wrong tool for your question, on 2 pages of this site. A tool that never tells you it cannot help you is an advertisement with arithmetic in it.
We use modern research and drafting tools to work faster. Every guide is checked by a person against the primary sources above before it goes live. The accuracy standard and the final judgement are human, and they are ours.
Contact
Questions about how we work? Email [email protected].