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Every year a few seem to be taken by surprise come tax time.If you did Uber and Lyft only in the past you are aware that you only get a 1099K if you Grossed over 20k, or you got a 1099 MISC if you received more than $600 in non pax driving money.

If you signed up for Food Delivery for the first time in 2020, be aware that DD,GH,PM,Instacart etc.etc. do not operate the way Uber and Lyft do regarding taxes. If you received more than $600 you will receive a 1099 NEC from them (and so will the IRS). For 2020, the 1099 NEC replaces the 1099 MISC for all practical purposes there is no difference for you between the NEC and the MISC.

Every year there are a few drivers that come on the forum caught by surprise that Food Delivery apps don't do it the same way as Uber/Lyft. Now you know.

Also, the Food Delivery code to use for your schedule C is: 492000. You're welcome!
 
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Seamus said:
Every year a few seem to be taken by surprise come tax time.If you did Uber and Lyft only in the past you are aware that you only get a 1099K if you Grossed over 20k, or you got a 1099 MISC if you received more than $600 in non pax driving money.

If you signed up for Food Delivery for the first time in 2020, be aware that DD,GH,PM,Instacart etc.etc. do not operate the way Uber and Lyft do regarding taxes. If you received more than $600 you will receive a 1099 NEC from them (and so will the IRS). For 2020, the 1099 NEC replaces the 1099 MISC for all practical purposes there is no difference for you between the NEC and the MISC.

Every year there are a few drivers that come on the forum caught by surprise that Food Delivery apps don't do it the same way as Uber/Lyft. Now you know.

Also, the Food Delivery code to use for your schedule C is: 492000. You're welcome!
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thank you!

Do they send these tax papers to you through the mail?
 
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Seamus said:
Every year a few seem to be taken by surprise come tax time.If you did Uber and Lyft only in the past you are aware that you only get a 1099K if you Grossed over 20k, or you got a 1099 MISC if you received more than $600 in non pax driving money.

If you signed up for Food Delivery for the first time in 2020, be aware that DD,GH,PM,Instacart etc.etc. do not operate the way Uber and Lyft do regarding taxes. If you received more than $600 you will receive a 1099 NEC from them (and so will the IRS). For 2020, the 1099 NEC replaces the 1099 MISC for all practical purposes there is no difference for you between the NEC and the MISC.

Every year there are a few drivers that come on the forum caught by surprise that Food Delivery apps don't do it the same way as Uber/Lyft. Now you know.

Also, the Food Delivery code to use for your schedule C is: 492000. You're welcome!
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This year Uber is also using the 1099nec
 
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sumidaj said:
I do Door dash, uber eats and a little postmates…I still haven't set up my account to collect money from PM though lol
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DD and PM are straightforward. If you make more than $600 you get a 1099 NEC in the amount of money they gave to you. Easy. For DD, check your email you should have an invite to create an account with a company called Payable. You set up all your information and choose to receive it by snail mail or electronically. If you don't do this you'll just get it mailed to you. PM sux so bad I deleted the app after 2 deliveries so I don't know how you get the 1099 NEC from them.

UE is a little more complicated. For tax purposes they consider themselves nothing more than a third party payment processor between the customer and you. So you have to understand:
GROSS Pay = all money Uber collected from customers on your orders
Fees = all the money you didn't get from your orders that Uber kept.
NET pay = is what was actually paid to you

  • If the GROSS pay is more than 20k you get a 1099k.
  • If the Gross pay is less than 20k you will simply get a tax summary for the information to file your taxes.
Either way, on your schedule C you use their GROSS pay as your revenue and then must deduct their fees as an expense on schedule C.

You sign in to the Uber Drivers site on their webpage and the information will be there for you.

Good Luck
 
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Seamus said:
DD and PM are straightforward. If you make more than $600 you get a 1099 NEC in the amount of money they gave to you. Easy. For DD, check your email you should have an invite to create an account with a company called Payable. You set up all your information and choose to receive it by snail mail or electronically. If you don't do this you'll just get it mailed to you. PM sux so bad I deleted the app after 2 deliveries so I don't know how you get the 1099 NEC from them.

UE is a little more complicated. For tax purposes they consider themselves nothing more than a third party payment processor between the customer and you. So you have to understand:
GROSS Pay = all money Uber collected from customers on your orders
Fees = all the money you didn't get from your orders that Uber kept.
NET pay = is what was actually paid to you

  • If the GROSS pay is more than 20k you get a 1099k.
  • If the Gross pay is less than 20k you will simply get a tax summary for the information to file your taxes.
Either way, on your schedule C you use their GROSS pay as your revenue and then must deduct their fees as an expense on schedule C.

You sign in to the Uber Drivers site on their webpage and the information will be there for you.

Good Luck
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ahh thank you! I do MOSTLY UE. DD / PM I barely do anything and I don't think I even made $100 off either of them.

Ugh...of course Uber makes it hard right? lol

thank you for the insight!!!
 
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I started UE technically this year.

Your post brings up something I did not consider. Do you complete 2 schedule C's one for PAX and one for Deliveries? Since it is all Uber I'm thinking just one Schedule C next year. After all the Schedule C code is primarily for statistical purposes, it has no bearing on taxes owed.
 
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FLKeys said:
I started UE technically this year.

Your post brings up something I did not consider. Do you complete 2 schedule C's one for PAX and one for Deliveries? Since it is all Uber I'm thinking just one Schedule C next year. After all the Schedule C code is primarily for statistical purposes, it has no bearing on taxes owed.
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I only do food delivery now but when I did both I just did one combined schedule C and since in my transition year Rideshare was the predominant $$$ I used that code. My cousin the CPA said they are "close enough" where he didn't think there would be any problem doing one. Especially UE since the 1099k wasn't broken out by rs or delivery (at least when I did both) it would be tough to do two.
 
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Seamus said:
Every year a few seem to be taken by surprise come tax time.If you did Uber and Lyft only in the past you are aware that you only get a 1099K if you Grossed over 20k, or you got a 1099 MISC if you received more than $600 in non pax driving money.

If you signed up for Food Delivery for the first time in 2020, be aware that DD,GH,PM,Instacart etc.etc. do not operate the way Uber and Lyft do regarding taxes. If you received more than $600 you will receive a 1099 NEC from them (and so will the IRS). For 2020, the 1099 NEC replaces the 1099 MISC for all practical purposes there is no difference for you between the NEC and the MISC.

Every year there are a few drivers that come on the forum caught by surprise that Food Delivery apps don't do it the same way as Uber/Lyft. Now you know.

Also, the Food Delivery code to use for your schedule C is: 492000. You're welcome!
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Thank you very much for the info. 2020 was my first year doing deliveries for UberEats, so I'm a newbie to the world of doing taxes as a delivery person.
Do you happen to know why I have two separate 1099-NEC forms - one that was mailed to me from Uber and another that I can access directly on the Uber app? The amounts shown are radically different between the two.
 
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Iluvpits said:
Thank you very much for the info. 2020 was my first year doing deliveries for UberEats, so I'm a newbie to the world of doing taxes as a delivery person.
Do you happen to know why I have two separate 1099-NEC forms - one that was mailed to me from Uber and another that I can access directly on the Uber app? The amounts shown are radically different between the two.
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You should have one 1099 NEC from Uber. There should be no reason that the amounts are different. Are you sure the online one is a 1099 NEC and not a "tax summary"? If you post them both (while blackening out personal information) maybe I can help you more.

On the surface it sounds to me that the online one is a tax summary which would be much higher than a 1099 NEC. Did you also do Uber X or only UberEats? Uber uses 1099k for customer payments to them and a 1099 NEC for non customer direct compensation (such as bonuses, quests, etc.)
 
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charly21 said:
my NEC form from doordash shows $1k more than my payments/deposits for 2020 period..is this normal ?
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That's a large discrepancy! NO, not at all normal from DoorDash. You need to get on that right away with DD support or Use the 1099 Team, 1099@doordash.com

Don't ignore it because the IRS will have the number from the Doordash 1099 so if you put in a lower number it won't match and you will be flagged.
 
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Seamus said:
Every year a few seem to be taken by surprise come tax time.If you did Uber and Lyft only in the past you are aware that you only get a 1099K if you Grossed over 20k, or you got a 1099 MISC if you received more than $600 in non pax driving money.

If you signed up for Food Delivery for the first time in 2020, be aware that DD,GH,PM,Instacart etc.etc. do not operate the way Uber and Lyft do regarding taxes. If you received more than $600 you will receive a 1099 NEC from them (and so will the IRS). For 2020, the 1099 NEC replaces the 1099 MISC for all practical purposes there is no difference for you between the NEC and the MISC.

Every year there are a few drivers that come on the forum caught by surprise that Food Delivery apps don't do it the same way as Uber/Lyft. Now you know.

Also, the Food Delivery code to use for your schedule C is: 492000. You're welcome!
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Do you know if I can deduct what UE lists as Food Cost Expenses as an expense? It's part of their expense section, but TurboTax didn't include it as an expense when it brought my data in. It's definitely not something that was paid to me. I'm not clear on exactly what it is. It came out to a little over $1 per trip average for me in 2020. Thanks.
 
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Poolorapond said:
Do you know if I can deduct what UE lists as Food Cost Expenses as an expense? It's part of their expense section, but TurboTax didn't include it as an expense when it brought my data in. It's definitely not something that was paid to me. I'm not clear on exactly what it is. It came out to a little over $1 per trip average for me in 2020. Thanks.
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Are you talking about a 1099K, 1099 NEC, or a tax summary?
 
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