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1099 problems
I ran a test of 1099s earlier this morning and noticed that there were a lot of vendors missing and none of the forms looked right. I then ran the 1099s from 2005 and none of them were correct either. Apparently sometime during the year a programming change in the 1099 process occurred where in addition to designating a vendor as requiring a 1099, the GL account where the expense is recorded must also be linked to a specific box for form 1099-MISC.
After talking with support, we found a kind of solution, but it's not the best in the world. I'm not sure of the reason for this, but Netsuite will not allow a cost of goods sold account to be linked to a 1099-MISC box. What it looks like I am going to have to do to get 1099s out is to change the costs of good sold accounts to expense or other expense types temporarily and then designate the proper 1099 box with that account. After I print out the 1099s I am going to change them back since they