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1099 E-Filing: Submitting IRIS CSV Portal corrections

Suzette Ciplickas Updated by Suzette Ciplickas

For information returns submitted through IRIS’s Taxpayer Portal, you must also submit Form corrections there.

For 2025 Information returns (1099’s, W2-G’s, 1098’s), this procedure is NOT like it was done with FIRE System’s corrections. You cannot UPLOAD the corrected Forms. Instead, you make the form corrections inside of the IRIS website for the IRS.

Later this Help article will also explain how you must still send the Recipient their corrected information form.

Note that this Help article is for Information Forms that have Already been uploaded and submitted on the IRIS website, and have a Status of either, “Accepted” or “Accepted with Errors” (see IRIS’s View Submitted Forms page).

If your file has the status of “Rejected” or “Partially Accepted”, then a Replacement file is appropriate (rather than a Correction). A different Help Article will be available for these statuses soon

Examples of Information Form Corrections:

  • Incorrect money amount(s)
  • Incorrect payment type(s)
  • Incorrect distribution code(s)
  • No recipient TIN
  • Incorrect recipient TIN
  • Incorrect recipient name
  • Incorrect check box
  • Original return filed using wrong type of return (for example, you filed a Form 1099-DIV, when it should’ve been a Form 1099-INT)
  • You filed a return when one shouldn’t have been filed
  • The most common error on IRIS is when the IRS cannot match your Recipient Name with the Tax ID Number.

    IF THE RECIPIENT IS A SOLE PROPRIETOR, their Legal Name as an Individual usually needs to be listed first on the 1099, even if a FEIN is used instead of a Social Security number. Their DBA can then be entered on the 2nd Name line, as follows:
Make corrections as soon as possible.
  1. To begin on the IRIS website, click View Submitted Forms on the Iris Dashboard to view all submitted forms. Note that if your submission included multiple forms, you may need to first click on the Receipt ID in order to view the individual form records. It may be easiest to use the Search feature.
  2. Mark the check box next to the transmission in need of correction. After making the selection(s), click the Correct/Replace button. Next check-mark the individual Record ID's that need correction, and again click the Correct/Replace button.
  3. Although IRIS publication instructions say this will next bring you to the Make a Correction page, they have failed to implement clear instructions on how to continue (as of January 22nd, 2026). Instead, expect to see screens similar to the following:
    After Clicking “Close”, you’ll see your form greyed out – yet you haven’t made your correction yet. You have to now go back to the Dashboard, and then to the Unsubmitted Forms webpage.
  4. On the Unsubmitted Forms page, notice that the Form(s) you selected for correction will now show “In Progress” as the Status. This is the status of your Correction (not for the Original form itself). You next need to click that status (“In Progress”) to enter into the form, make your changes, and then still SUBMIT your correction(s). Note that the form you’ve selected for correction will maintain a historical receipt ID with the original parent transmission – which is visible next to status column:
    Note that the illustration above shows “Ready to Submit”, because the changes were already made within the Form. You can still go back into the form through its Status link to make further changes before submitting
    If you incorrectly chose a form for correction, realizing no change is needed, you can DELETE this “started correction form” using the Delete button on the Unsubmitted Forms page. It will NOT delete the Original, already submitted form.
    You can only complete the correction process for each form once. If a form is corrected, you’ll no longer be able to correct that original form. However, you can later make a “correction of the correction” if needed.
  5. DUPLICATES or Multiple 1099’s to a Single Recipient
    If after completing the submission process for an Information form (receiving a status of “Accepted” or “Accepted with Errors”), you then accidentally resubmit a form, note that they will have different record ID’s in the IRIS system.
    To fix, go into the 2nd (duplicate) form, and enter ZERO in its amount field, zeroing out that form only.
    If on the other hand, you sent more than ONE 1099 (of the same form type) to a particular Recipient intentionally, each 1099 will need a different account number (which begins with a number). Payroll System always electronically adds an Account number of “1” to your original 1099 (when the account number field is blank).  Be sure to use a different account number for any additional 1099 to the same Recipient of the same Form type (for example, use the Account number 2 on a second 1099-NEC)
  6. After going inside each form to complete any needed correction(s), you will next need to checkmark and SUBMIT these corrected forms on the Unsubmitted forms page.  Be sure to complete the process until reaching, “Your Forms have been Submitted” screen.  (Also check the View Submitted Forms page to check their status afterwards.)
    From the View Submitted Forms page you can also choose the Download link (under "Download PDFs" column) to download your Corrected 1099 (to distribute to the Recipient). Note that it will initially go to your "Notifications" within IRIS (found in upper right-hand corner of the Dashboard).  From there you can download to your computer.
  7. Be aware that your 1099 form(s) will not be corrected in Payroll System – unless you also go back into Payroll System to correct them. NOTE: do not submit after correcting in Payroll System, as you already have corrected those forms directly in the IRIS system. However, you do need to provide the corrected 1099 to the recipient (either having downloaded from IRIS, or by printing Corrected 1099 from Payroll System).
    Additionally, your Saved File in Step 3 of Payroll System’s 1099 e-file module will not reflect any changes you’ve made on the IRIS website. However, we do NOT recommend going back to reset that file, but rather that you keep your own manual records regarding the way you changed the contents of that file on IRIS.

Record ID Link: Once the IRS accepts a form with correction, the historic receipt ID will populate and link the form to its original transmission.

Historic Receipt ID Link: A historic receipt ID will populate with the receipt ID of the parent transmission for corrected records. Clicking it will send you to the View Submitted Forms Details page for the parent transmission.

If you’ve started a correction and need to complete it, navigate to the Unsubmitted Forms page and select In Progress for the selected form. You’ll advance to the Payer Information page, displaying the information you previously sent to the IRS.

Contact the IRIS Help Desk if you have further questions at (866) 937-4130 

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