Form 1099-INT - Interest Income

2020

Instructions for Forms
1099-INT and 1099-OID

Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service

Interest Income and Original Issue Discount
to backup withholding. See the Instructions for Form
1042-S. Also see Rev. Proc. 2012-24, 2012-20 I.R.B. 913,
available at IRS.gov/irb/2012-20_IRB#RP-2012-24.

Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code
unless otherwise noted.

Future Developments

For the latest information about developments related to
Forms 1099-INT and 1099-OID and their instructions,
such as legislation enacted after they were published, go
to IRS.gov/Form1099INT or IRS.gov/Form1099OID.

What’s New
Continuous-use Form 1099-OID and instructions.
Form 1099-OID and its instructions, contained herein,
have been converted from an annual revision to
continuous use. Both the form and instructions will be
updated as needed. For the most recent version, go to
IRS.gov/Form1099OID.

Reminders
General instructions. In addition to these specific
instructions, you should also use the 2020 General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns. Those
general instructions include information about the
following topics.
• Who must file.
• When and where to file.
• Electronic reporting.
• Corrected and void returns.
• Statements to recipients.
• Taxpayer identification numbers (TINs).
• Backup withholding.
• Penalties.
• The definitions of terms applicable for chapter 4
purposes that are referenced in these instructions.
• Other general topics.
You can get the general instructions at
General Instructions for Certain Information Returns, at
IRS.gov/1099GeneralInstructions, or go to IRS.gov/
Form1099INT or IRS.gov/Form1099OID.
Online fillable Copies 1, B, 2, and C. To ease
statement furnishing requirements, Copies 1, B, 2, and C
are fillable online in a PDF format available at IRS.gov/
Form1099INT and IRS.gov/Form1099OID. You can
complete these copies online for furnishing statements to
recipients and for retaining in your own files.
Nonresident aliens. If you pay U.S. bank deposit
interest of at least $10 to certain nonresident alien
individuals, report the interest on Form 1042-S, Foreign
Person's U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding. To
determine whether an information return is required for
original issue discount, see Regulations sections
1.6049-5(f) and 1.6049-8(a). This interest may be subject
Oct 03, 2019

Specific Instructions for Form
1099-INT

File Form 1099-INT, Interest Income, for each person:
1. To whom you paid amounts reportable in boxes 1,
3, and 8 of at least $10 (or at least $600 of interest paid in
the course of your trade or business described in the
instructions for Box 1. Interest Income, later);
2. For whom you withheld and paid any foreign tax on
interest; or
3. From whom you withheld (and did not refund) any
federal income tax under the backup withholding rules
regardless of the amount of the payment.
Report only interest payments made in the course of
your trade or business including federal, state, and local
government agencies and activities deemed nonprofit, or
for which you were a nominee/middleman. Report interest
that is taxable OID in box 1 or 8 of Form 1099-OID,
Original Issue Discount, not on Form 1099-INT. Report
interest that is tax-exempt OID in box 11 of Form
1099-OID, not on Form 1099-INT. Report exempt-interest
dividends from a mutual fund or other regulated
investment company (RIC) on Form 1099-DIV.

For a specified private activity bond with OID, report the
tax-exempt OID in box 11 on Form 1099-OID and the
tax-exempt stated interest in boxes 8 and 9 on Form
1099-INT.
Exceptions to reporting. No Form 1099-INT must be
filed for payments made to exempt recipients or for
interest excluded from reporting.
Exempt recipients. You are not required to file Form
1099-INT for payments made to certain payees including,
but not limited to, a corporation, a tax-exempt
organization, any individual retirement arrangement (IRA),
Archer medical savings account (MSA), Medicare
Advantage MSA, health savings account (HSA), a U.S.
agency, a state, the District of Columbia, a U.S.
possession, a registered securities or commodities
dealer, nominees or custodians, brokers, or notional
principal contract (swap) dealers. For additional exempt
recipients, see Regulations section 1.6049-4 for more
information. For situations when you are required to file
Form 1099-INT for certain recipients that are otherwise
generally exempt, but that receive credits from tax credit
bonds, see Interest to holders of tax credit bonds under
Box 1. Interest Income, later.

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1099-OID. You may not report the qualified stated interest
on Form 1099-OID and the bond premium amortization
allocable to the interest on Form 1099-INT.
If you are required to report the amount of bond
premium amortization allocable to an interest payment,
you may report either (1) a net amount of interest that
reflects the offset of the interest payment by the amount of
bond premium amortization allocable to the interest
payment, or (2) a gross amount for both the interest
payment and the bond premium amortization allocable to
the interest payment. For example, if a taxpayer receives
$20 of taxable interest from a corporate bond and the
amount of bond premium amortization allocable to the
interest is $2, you may report $18 of interest income in
box 1 and $0 in box 11, or you may report $20 of interest
income in box 1 and $2 in box 11. For a noncovered
security acquired with bond premium, you are only
required to report the gross amount of interest.

Interest excluded from reporting. You are not
required to file Form 1099-INT for interest on an obligation
issued by an individual, interest on amounts from sources
outside the United States paid outside the United States
by a non-U.S. payer or non-U.S. middleman, certain
portfolio interest, interest on an obligation issued by an
international organization and paid by that organization,
and payments made to a foreign beneficial owner or
foreign payee. See Regulations section 1.6049-5 for more
information.
Other exception. Do not report tax-deferred interest,
such as interest that is earned but not distributed from an
IRA.
When is a payment made? Generally, interest is paid
when it is credited or set apart for a person without any
substantial limitation or restriction as to the time, manner,
or condition of payment. The interest must be made
available so that it may be drawn on at any time and its
receipt brought within the control and disposition of the
person.
For payments made on obligations subject to
transactional reporting (for example, savings bonds,
interest coupons, and other demand obligations), interest
is paid at the time the obligation is presented for payment.
For example, interest on a coupon detached from a bond
is paid when it is presented for payment.
For rules regarding when interest earned by a trust
interest holder (TIH) in a widely held fixed investment trust
(WHFIT) is reportable, see Regulations section 1.671-5.
A credit allowed from tax credit bonds reportable on
Form 1099-INT is treated as paid on the credit allowance
date. For information on credit allowance dates, see
Interest to holders of tax credit bonds under Box 1.
Interest Income, later.

Statements to recipients. If you are required to file
Form 1099-INT, you must furnish a statement to the
recipient. For more information about the requirement to
furnish an official form or acceptable substitute statement
to recipients, see part M in the 2020 General Instructions
for Certain Information Returns. If you have furnished
Forms 1099-INT to a recipient for amounts received
during the year at the time of the transactions, such as you
might have done for window transactions, do not include
these same amounts in a Form 1099-INT furnished to the
same recipient for other payments during the year.
Truncating recipient’s TIN. Pursuant to Regulations
section 301.6109-4, all filers of Form 1099-INT may
truncate a recipient’s TIN (social security number (SSN),
individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), adoption
taxpayer identification number (ATIN), or employer
identification number (EIN)) on payee statements.
Truncation is not allowed on any documents the filer files
with the IRS. A payer's TIN may not be truncated on any
form. See part J in the 2020 General Instructions for
Certain Information Returns.

Reporting interest and OID. If you are reporting
qualified stated interest and OID on any obligation that is
not a specified private activity bond, you may report both
the qualified stated interest and the OID on Form
1099-OID. It is not necessary to file both Forms 1099-INT
and 1099-OID. On Form 1099-OID, report the qualified
stated interest in box 2 and the OID in box 1, 8, or 11, as
applicable. However, you may choose to report the
qualified stated interest on Form 1099-INT and the OID on
Form 1099-OID. For a specified private activity bond with
OID, report the tax-exempt OID in box 11 on Form
1099-OID and the tax-exempt stated interest in boxes 8
and 9 on Form 1099-INT.

Account number. The account number is required if you
have multiple accounts for a recipient for whom you are
filing more than one Form 1099-INT. The account number
also is required if you check the “FATCA filing
requirement” box. See FATCA filing requirement
checkbox, later. Additionally, the IRS encourages you to
designate an account number for all Forms 1099-INT that
you file. See part L in the 2020 General Instructions for
Certain Information Returns.

Reporting interest and bond premium. For a covered
security acquired with bond premium, you must report the
amount of bond premium amortization for the tax year.
See Regulations section 1.6045-1(a)(15) to determine if a
debt instrument is a covered security. However, in the
case of a taxable bond, if you have been notified by the
taxpayer that the taxpayer does not elect to amortize bond
premium, you must not report any amount of bond
premium amortization. See Regulations section
1.6045-1(n)(5).
For a covered security acquired with OID and bond
premium, if you choose to report qualified stated interest
in box 2 of Form 1099-OID, you must report any bond
premium amortization on that security in box 10 of Form

FATCA filing requirement checkbox. Check the box if
you are a U.S. payer that is reporting on Form(s) 1099
(including reporting payments in boxes 1, 3, 8, 9, and 10
on this Form 1099-INT) as part of satisfying your
requirement to report with respect to a U.S. account for
chapter 4 purposes as described in Regulations section
1.1471-4(d)(2)(iii)(A). In addition, check the box if you are
a Foreign Financial Institution (FFI) reporting payments to
a U.S. account pursuant to an election described in
Regulations section 1.1471-4(d)(5)(i)(A).
2nd TIN not. You may enter an “X” in this box if you were
notified by the IRS twice within 3 calendar years that the
payee provided an incorrect TIN. If you mark this box, the
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IRS will not send you any further notices about this
account.
However, if you received both IRS notices in the same
year, or if you received them in different years but they
both related to information returns filed for the same year,
do not check the box at this time. For purposes of the
two-notices-in-3-years rule, you are considered to have
received one notice and you are not required to send a
second “B” notice to the taxpayer on receipt of the second
notice. See part N in the 2020 General Instructions for
Certain Information Returns for more information.

Clean renewable energy bonds.
New clean renewable energy bonds.
Qualified energy conservation bonds.
Qualified zone academy bonds.
Qualified school construction bonds.
Build America bonds (Tax Credit).
Treat these amounts as paid on the credit allowance date.
The credit allowance dates are March 15, June 15,
September 15, December 15, and the last day on which
the bond is outstanding. For bonds issued during the
3-month period ending on a credit allowance date and for
bonds which are redeemed or mature, the amount of the
credit is determined ratably based on the portion of the
3-month period during which the bond is outstanding.
Generally, interest paid is not required to be reported to
the list of recipients below. However, if they are holders of,
or recipients of credit from, the tax credit bonds listed
above, the interest must be reported.
• A corporation.
• A dealer in securities or commodities required to
register as such under the laws of the United States, a
state, the District of Columbia, or a possession of the
United States.
• A real estate investment trust (REIT) as defined in
section 856.
• An entity registered at all times during the tax year
under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
• A common trust fund as defined in section 584(a).
• Any trust which is exempt from tax under section
664(c).

For information on the TIN Matching System

TIP offered by the IRS, see Items You Should Note in

the 2020 General Instructions for Certain
Information Returns.

Payer's RTN (optional). If you are a financial institution
that wishes to participate in the program for direct deposit
of refunds, you may enter your routing and transit number
(RTN).

Box 1. Interest Income

Enter taxable interest not included in box 3. Include
amounts of $10 or more, whether or not designated as
interest, that are paid or credited to the person's account
by savings and loan associations, mutual savings banks
not having capital stock represented by shares, building
and loan associations, cooperative banks, homestead
associations, credit unions, or similar organizations.
Include interest on bank deposits, accumulated dividends
paid by a life insurance company, indebtedness (including
bonds, debentures, notes, and certificates other than
those of the U.S. Treasury) issued in registered form or of
a type offered to the public, or amounts from which you
withheld federal income tax or foreign tax. In addition,
report interest of $10 or more attributable to a TIH of a
WHFIT, or accrued by a real estate mortgage investment
conduit (REMIC), a financial asset securitization
investment trust (FASIT) regular interest holder, or paid to
a collateralized debt obligation (CDO) holder, as
explained later.

Box 2. Early Withdrawal Penalty

Enter interest or principal forfeited because of an early
withdrawal of time deposits, such as an early withdrawal
from a certificate of deposit (CD), that is deductible from
gross income by the recipient. Do not reduce the amount
reported in box 1 by the amount of the forfeiture. For
detailed instructions for determining the amount of
forfeiture deductible by the depositor, see Rev. Ruls.
75-20, 1975-1 C.B. 29, and 75-21, 1975-1 C.B. 367.

Box 3. Interest on U.S. Savings Bonds and
Treas. Obligations

Also include interest of $600 or more paid in the course
of your trade or business not meeting the above criteria,
such as interest on delayed death benefits paid by a life
insurance company, interest received with damages,
interest on a state or federal income tax refund, or interest
attributable to certain notional principal contracts with
nonperiodic payments.

Enter interest on U.S. Savings Bonds, Treasury bills,
Treasury notes, and Treasury bonds. Do not include in
box 1. For a taxable covered security acquired at a
premium, see Box 12. Bond Premium on U.S. Treasury
Obligations, later.

If you make payment on a U.S. Savings Bond or other
U.S. obligation on which interest is reportable, enter your
name, address, and TIN on Form 1099-INT and Form
1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S.
Information Returns, not those of the U.S. Treasury
Department or the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Include in box 1 any accrued qualified stated interest
on bonds sold between interest dates (or on a payment
date). Also show OID on short-term obligations of 1 year
or less and interest on all bearer certificates of deposit.
For a taxable covered security acquired at a premium, see
Box 11. Bond Premium, later.

Box 4. Federal Income Tax Withheld

Do not include in box 1 interest on tax-free covenant
bonds or dividends from money market funds (which are
reportable on Form 1099-DIV). Do not include any
description in box 1.

Enter backup withholding. For example, if a recipient does
not furnish its TIN to you in the manner required, you must
backup withhold on payments required to be reported in
box 1 (which may be reduced by the amount reported in
box 2), box 3, and box 8 on this form.

Interest to holders of tax credit bonds. Report tax
credits in amounts of $10 or more allowed from the
following tax credit bonds.
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For more information on backup withholding, including
the applicable rate, see part N in the 2020 General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.

(B). For a covered security with original issue discount,
report the accruals of market discount on Form 1099-OID
rather than on Form 1099-INT.

For information on requesting the recipient's TIN, see
part J in the 2020 General Instructions for Certain
Information Returns.

Box 11. Bond Premium

For a taxable covered security acquired at a premium
(other than a U.S. Treasury obligation), enter the amount
of bond premium amortization allocable to the interest
paid during the tax year, unless you were notified in
writing that the holder did not want to amortize bond
premium under section 171. See Regulations sections
1.6045-1(n)(5) and 1.6049-9(b). If you are required to
report bond premium amortization and you reported a net
amount of interest in box 1, leave this box blank.

Box 5. Investment Expenses

For single-class REMICs only, see Box 5. Investment
Expenses under Rules for REMICs, FASITs, and Issuers
of CDOs, later.

Box 6. Foreign Tax Paid

Enter any foreign tax paid on interest. Report this amount
in U.S. dollars.

Box 12. Bond Premium on U.S. Treasury
Obligations

Box 7. Foreign Country or U.S. Possession

For a U.S. Treasury obligation that is a covered security,
enter the amount of bond premium amortization allocable
to the interest paid during the tax year, unless you were
notified in writing that the holder did not want to amortize
bond premium under section 171. See Regulations
sections 1.6045-1(n)(5) and 1.6049-9(b). If you are
required to report bond premium amortization and you
reported a net amount of interest in box 3, leave this box
blank.

Enter the name of the foreign country or U.S. possession
for which the foreign tax was paid and reported in box 6.

Box 8. Tax-Exempt Interest

Enter tax-exempt interest that is not OID of $10 or more
that is credited or paid to the person's account if that
interest is used to finance government operations and is
issued by a state, the District of Columbia, a U.S.
possession, an Indian tribal government, or their political
subdivisions, or qualified volunteer fire departments. A
political subdivision may include port authorities, toll road
commissions, utility services authorities, community
redevelopment agencies, and similar governmental
entities that meet the requirements of Regulations section
1.103-1(b). Include in box 8 any accrued qualified stated
interest on these bonds sold between interest dates (or on
a payment date). For a tax-exempt covered security
acquired at a premium, see Box 13. Bond Premium on
Tax-Exempt Bond, later.

Box 13. Bond Premium on Tax-Exempt Bond

For a tax-exempt covered security acquired at a premium,
enter the amount of bond premium amortization allocable
to the interest paid during the tax year. If you reported a
net amount of interest in box 8 or 9, whichever is
applicable, leave this box blank.

Box 14. Tax-Exempt and Tax Credit Bond CUSIP
No.

For single bonds or accounts containing a single bond,
enter the CUSIP number of the tax-exempt bond for which
tax-exempt interest is reported in box 8 or tax credit bond
(including build America bond and specified tax credit
bond) for which a tax credit or taxable interest, as
applicable, is reported in box 1. Enter the CUSIP number
of the bond for which interest was paid or tax credit was
allowed. If the tax-exempt interest or the tax credit is
reported in the aggregate for multiple bonds or accounts,
enter “various.”

Any exempt-interest dividends from a mutual fund or
other RIC are reported on Form 1099-DIV.
Include specified private activity bond interest in box 9
and in the total for box 8. See the instructions for box 9
next.

Box 9. Specified Private Activity Bond Interest

Enter interest of $10 or more from specified private activity
bonds. Generally, “specified private activity bond” means
any private activity bond defined in section 141 and
issued after August 7, 1986. See section 57(a)(5) for more
details. Also see the Instructions for Form 6251,
Alternative Minimum Tax—Individuals, available at
IRS.gov/Form6251.

Boxes 15–17. State Information

These boxes may be used by payers who participate in
the Combined Federal/State Filing Program and/or who
are required to file paper copies of this form with a state
tax department. See Pub. 1220 for more information
regarding the Combined Federal/State Filing Program.
They are provided for your convenience only and need
not be completed for the IRS. Use the state information
boxes to report payments for up to two states. Keep the
information for each state separated by the dash line. If
you withheld state income tax on this payment, you may
enter it in box 17. In box 15, enter the abbreviated name of
the state, and in box 16, enter the payer's state
identification number. The state number is the payer's
identification number assigned by the individual state.

Box 10. Market Discount

For a covered security acquired with market discount, if
the taxpayer notified you that a section 1278(b) election
was made, enter the amount of market discount that
accrued on the debt instrument during the tax year in the
amount of $10 or more. For more details, see Regulations
section 1.6045-1(n). Unless the taxpayer notified you that
the taxpayer did not make a section 1276(b) election, use
the constant yield method described in section 1276(b)(2)
to determine the accruals of market discount for the debt
instrument. See Regulations section 1.6045-1(n)(11)(i)
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If a state tax department requires that you send them a
paper copy of this form, use Copy 1 to provide information
to the state tax department. Give Copy 2 to the recipient
for use in filing the recipient's state income tax return.

Box 1. Interest Income
Report in box 1 the amount of interest, other than OID,
accrued to each REMIC or FASIT regular interest holder
or paid to a CDO holder for the period during the year for
which the return is made. If you are a single-class REMIC
(as defined in Temporary Regulations section 1.67-3T(a)
(2)(ii)(B)), increase the amount otherwise reportable in
box 1 by the regular interest holder's share of investment
expenses of the REMIC for the year. No amount should
be reported in box 3.

Rules for WHFITs

Trustees and middlemen must report the gross amount of
interest attributable to the TIH for the calendar year on
Form 1099-INT if that amount exceeds $10. If the trustee
provides WHFIT information using the safe harbor rules in
Regulations section 1.671-5(f)(1) or (g)(1), the trustee or
middleman must determine the amounts reported on
Form 1099-INT under Regulations section 1.671-5(f)(2) or
(g)(2), as appropriate.

Box 5. Investment Expenses
Enter the regular interest holder's pro rata share of
investment expenses.

Requirement to furnish a tax information statement
to the TIH. A tax information statement that includes the
information provided to the IRS on Form 1099-INT, as well
as additional information identified in Regulations section
1.671-5(e), must be provided to TIHs. The written tax
information statement must be furnished to the TIH by
March 15. The amount of an item of a trust expense that
is attributable to a TIH must be included on the tax
information statement provided to the TIH and is not
required to be included in box 5 of Form 1099-INT.
WHFIT interest income information may be included in
summary totals reported to the IRS and the TIH.
Information about WHFIT interest income also may be
included in a composite statement furnished to the TIH.
For more filing requirements, see the 2020 General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.

Statements to Holders
For each Form 1099-INT you are required to file, you must
furnish a statement to the REMIC or FASIT regular
interest holder or CDO holder identified on the form. The
statement must contain the information shown on Form
1099-INT, including the legend shown on Copy B of the
official Form 1099-INT, and an indication that these items
are being furnished to the IRS. The statement also must
show the information specified in Regulations section
1.6049-7(f)(2)(i). In addition, the statement furnished by a
REMIC must show, for each calendar quarter, the
information specified in Regulations section 1.6049-7(f)
(3). Also see Regulations section 1.6049-7(f)(3)(ii) for
information that may be required to be reported to a REIT
that holds a REMIC regular interest.

Rules for REMICs, FASITs, and Issuers of CDOs

A single-class REMIC (as defined in Temporary
Regulations section 1.67-3T(a)(2)(ii)(B)) must include in
the statement the investment expenses paid or accrued
during each calendar quarter by the REMIC for which the
REMIC is allowed a deduction under section 212 and the
proportionate share of those investment expenses
allocated to the regular interest holder.

These reporting rules apply only to FASITs in
existence on October 22, 2004, to the extent that
CAUTION regular interests issued by the FASIT before that
date continue to remain outstanding in accordance with
the original terms of issue.

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REMICs, holders of ownership interests in FASITs,
issuers of CDOs, and any broker or middleman who holds
as a nominee a REMIC or FASIT regular interest or CDO
must file Form 1099-INT. The form is used to report
interest of $10 or more, other than OID, accrued to a
REMIC or FASIT regular interest holder during the year or
paid to a holder of a CDO. If you also are reporting OID,
this interest and the OID can be reported on Form
1099-OID. You do not have to file both Forms 1099-INT
and 1099-OID.

The statement must be furnished to holders by March
15. To meet the statement requirement, you may furnish a
copy of Form 1099-INT and a separate statement
containing the additional information to the REMIC or
FASIT regular interest holder or CDO holder.
For information about reporting income to REMIC
residual interest holders, see the instructions for
Schedule Q (Form 1066), Quarterly Notice to Residual
Interest Holder of REMIC Taxable Income or Net Loss
Allocation, in the separate Instructions for Form 1066,
available at IRS.gov/Form1066.

You are not required to file or issue Form 1099-INT for
exempt recipients including, but not limited to, the
following.
• A corporation.
• A broker.
• A middleman/nominee.
• A financial institution.
• Any IRA, Archer MSA, Medicare Advantage MSA, or
HSA.
• A tax-exempt organization.

Form 8811 and Reporting by Brokers or
Middlemen
REMICs and issuers of CDOs also must file Form 8811,
Information Return for Real Estate Mortgage Investment
Conduits (REMICs) and Issuers of Collateralized Debt
Obligations, within 30 days after the start-up date of the
REMIC or issue date of a CDO. The IRS will use the
information on Forms 8811 to update Pub. 938, Real
Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICs)
Reporting Information, for use by certain brokers,

For additional exempt recipients, see Regulations
section 1.6049-7(c).

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they are the same issue, (2) held the same amount of time
during the calendar year, (3) acquired at the same time,
(4) acquired for the same price, and (5) all debt elections
(or lack of elections) are the same for all certificates.
For information about how to compute OID, see
sections 1271–1275 and their regulations and section
1288.
If you are a broker or middleman who holds a bank CD
as nominee, whether or not you sold the CD to the owner,
you must determine the amount of OID includible in the
income of the owner, if any, and report it on Form
1099-OID.
Pub. 1212, Guide to Original Issue Discount (OID)
Instruments, contains information on certain outstanding
publicly offered discount obligations. It is available at
IRS.gov/Pub1212.
Issuers of certain publicly offered debt instruments
having OID must file Form 8281, Information Return for
Publicly Offered Original Issue Discount Instruments,
generally within 30 days after the date of issuance, or, if
later, the date of registration with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The information provided on that
form will enable the IRS to update Pub. 1212. See Form
8281, available at IRS.gov/Form8281, and Regulations
section 1.1275-3(c) for details.

middlemen, corporations, and others specified in
Regulations section 1.6049-7(e)(4). Pub. 938 is available
at IRS.gov/Pub938.
For the requirements that a REMIC or CDO issuer or a
broker or middleman who holds a REMIC or FASIT
regular interest or a CDO furnish certain information on
request, see Regulations sections 1.6049-7(e) and
1.6049-7(f)(7).

Specific Instructions for Form
1099-OID
Note. For the most recent version, go to IRS.gov/
Form1099OID.
File Form 1099-OID, Original Issue Discount, if the total
daily portions of original issue discount (OID) for a holder
is at least $10 and you are any of the following.
• An issuer with any bond outstanding or other evidence
of indebtedness in registered or bearer form issued with
OID.
• An issuer of a certificate of deposit (CD) made,
purchased, or renewed after 1970 if the CD has OID and a
term of more than 1 year (see Caution, later).
• A financial institution having other deposit
arrangements, such as time deposits or bonus-savings
plans, if the arrangements have OID and a term of more
than 1 year.
• A broker or other middleman holding an OID obligation,
including CDs, as nominee for the actual owner.
• A trustee or middleman of a widely held fixed
investment trust (WHFIT) or widely held mortgage trust
(WHMT).
• A real estate mortgage investment conduit (REMIC), a
holder of an ownership interest in a financial asset
securitization investment trust (FASIT), or an issuer of a
collateralized debt obligation (CDO).

Exceptions. You are not required to file Form 1099-OID
for payments made to certain payees including a
corporation, a tax-exempt organization, any individual
retirement arrangement (IRA), an Archer medical savings
account (MSA), Medicare Advantage MSA, health
savings account (HSA), a U.S. agency, a state, the District
of Columbia, a U.S. possession, or a registered securities
or commodities dealer.

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CAUTION

Also file Form 1099-OID for any person for whom you
withheld and paid any foreign tax on OID or from whom
you withheld (and did not refund) any federal income tax
under the backup withholding rules even if the amount of
the OID is less than $10.

Report interest on U.S. Savings Bonds on Form
1099-INT. Also report OID on obligations with a
term of 1 year or less on Form 1099-INT.

Reporting interest and OID. If you are reporting
qualified stated interest and OID on an obligation, you
may report both the interest and the OID on Form
1099-OID. It is not necessary to file both Forms 1099-INT
and 1099-OID. On Form 1099-OID, report the qualified
stated interest in box 2 and the OID in box 1, 8, or 11, as
applicable. You may choose to report the interest on Form
1099-INT and the OID on Form 1099-OID.

Original issue discount. OID is the excess of an
obligation's stated redemption price at maturity over its
issue price (acquisition price for a stripped bond or
coupon). In the case of a taxable obligation, a discount of
less than 1/4 of 1% of the stated redemption price at
maturity, multiplied by the number of full years from the
date of issue to maturity, is considered to be zero.

Reporting OID and acquisition premium. For a
covered security acquired with acquisition premium, you
must report the amount of acquisition premium
amortization for the tax year. See Regulations section
1.6045-1(a)(15) to determine if a debt instrument is a
covered security. In general, you must use the rules in
Regulations section 1.1272-2(b)(4) to amortize the
acquisition premium. See Regulations section
1.6049-9(c). You may, but are not required to, report the
acquisition premium amortization for a tax-exempt
obligation that is a covered security acquired before
January 1, 2017.
If you are required to report the amount of acquisition
premium amortized for the tax year, you may report either
(1) a net amount of OID that reflects the offset of OID by
the amount of acquisition premium amortization for the

Reporting OID. You must prepare a Form 1099-OID for
each person who is a holder of record of the obligation if
the total daily portions of OID for that person is at least
$10. See the instructions for Box 1, later, for taxable OID;
Box 8, later, for taxable OID on U.S. Treasury obligations;
and Box 11, later, for tax-exempt OID.
Ordinarily, you will file only one Form 1099-OID for the
depositor or holder of a particular obligation for the
calendar year. If a person holds more than one discount
obligation, issue a separate Form 1099-OID for each
obligation. However, if a person holds more than one
certificate, you can file a single Form 1099-OID only if (1)
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year, or (2) a gross amount for both the OID and the
acquisition premium amortization for the year. For
example, if $20 of OID accrues on a corporate bond
during the year and there is acquisition premium
amortization of $2 for the year, you may report $18 of OID
in box 1 and $0 in box 6, or you may report $20 of OID in
box 1 and $2 in box 6. For a noncovered security acquired
with acquisition premium, you are only required to report
the gross amount of OID.

received one notice and you are not required to send a
second “B” notice to the taxpayer on receipt of the second
notice. See part N in the current General Instructions for
Certain Information Returns for more information.

Reporting interest and bond premium. For a debt
instrument with OID that is a covered security, if you
choose to report qualified stated interest in box 2 of Form
1099-OID, report any bond premium amortization
allocable to the interest in box 10 of Form 1099-OID and
not in boxes 11–13 of Form 1099-INT.

Box 1. Original Issue Discount

For information on the TIN Matching System

TIP offered by the IRS, see Items You Should Note in

the current General Instructions for Certain
Information Returns.

Report the taxable OID on the obligation for the part of the
year it was owned by the record holder. Do not include the
amount reported in box 8. For a discussion of WHFITs,
WHMTs, REMICs, FASITs, and CDOs, see the
instructions, later.

Statements to recipients. If you are required to file
Form 1099-OID, you must furnish a statement to the
recipient. For more information about the requirement to
furnish an official form or acceptable substitute statement
to recipients, see part M in the current General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.

Box 2. Other Periodic Interest

Enter any qualified stated interest paid or credited on this
obligation during the year. However, you may report any
qualified stated interest on Treasury Inflation Protected
Securities in box 3 of Form 1099-INT rather than in box 2
of Form 1099-OID. Interest reported here must not be
reported on Form 1099-INT. For a discussion of REMICs,
FASITs, and CDOs, see the instructions, later.

Truncating recipient’s TIN on payee statements.
Pursuant to Regulations section 301.6109-4, all filers of
Form 1099-OID may truncate a recipient’s TIN (social
security number (SSN), individual taxpayer identification
number (ITIN), adoption taxpayer identification number
(ATIN), or employer identification number (EIN)) on payee
statements. Truncation is not allowed on any documents
the filer files with the IRS. A payer's TIN may not be
truncated on any form. See part J in the current General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.

Box 3. Early Withdrawal Penalty

Enter interest or principal forfeited because of an early
withdrawal of time deposits, such as an early withdrawal
from a CD, that is deductible from gross income by the
recipient. Do not reduce the amounts in boxes 1 and 2 by
the amount of the forfeiture. For detailed instructions for
determining the amount of forfeiture deductible by the
holder, see Rev. Ruls. 75-20, 1975-1 C.B. 29, and 75-21,
1975-1 C.B. 367.

FATCA filing requirement checkbox. Check the box if
you are a U.S. payer that is reporting on Form(s) 1099
(including reporting amounts in boxes 1, 2, and 8 on this
Form 1099-OID) as part of satisfying your requirement to
report with respect to a U.S. account for chapter 4
purposes as described in Regulations section 1.1471-4(d)
(2)(iii)(A). In addition, check the box if you are a Foreign
Financial Institution (FFI) reporting payments to a U.S.
account pursuant to an election described in Regulations
section 1.1471-4(d)(5)(i)(A).

Box 4. Federal Income Tax Withheld

Enter backup withholding. For example, if a recipient does
not furnish its TIN to you in the manner required, you must
backup withhold. The applicable interest rate applies to
amounts required to be reported in boxes 1, 2, and 8, but
is limited to the cash paid on these obligations. Before
applying the applicable interest rate, you may reduce the
amounts reported in boxes 1 and 2 by the amount
reported in box 3.

Account number. The account number is required if you
have multiple accounts for a recipient for whom you are
filing more than one Form 1099-OID. The account number
also is required if you check the “FATCA filing
requirement” box. See FATCA filing requirement
checkbox, earlier. Additionally, the IRS encourages you to
designate an account number for all Forms 1099-OID that
you file. See part L in the current General Instructions for
Certain Information Returns.

For more information on backup withholding, including
the applicable rate, see part N in the current General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.
For information on requesting the recipient's TIN, see
part J in the current General Instructions for Certain
Information Returns.

Box 5. Market Discount

2nd TIN not. You may enter an “X” in this box if you were
notified by the IRS twice within 3 calendar years that the
payee provided an incorrect TIN. If you mark this box, the
IRS will not send you any further notices about this
account.
However, if you received both IRS notices in the same
year, or if you received them in different years but they
both related to information returns filed for the same year,
do not check the box at this time. For purposes of the
two-notices-in-3-years rule, you are considered to have
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For a covered security acquired with market discount and
OID, if the taxpayer notified you that a section 1278(b)
election was made, enter the amount of market discount
that accrued on the debt instrument during the tax year in
the amount of $10 or more. For more details, see
Regulations section 1.6045-1(n). Unless the taxpayer
notified you that the taxpayer did not make a section
1276(b) election, use the constant yield method described
in section 1276(b)(2) to determine the accruals of market
discount for the debt instrument. See Regulations section
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1.6045-1(n)(11)(i)(B). You may, but are not required to,
report the market discount for a tax-exempt obligation that
is a covered security acquired before January 1, 2017.

These boxes may be used by payers who participate in
the Combined Federal/State Filing Program and/or who
are required to file paper copies of this form with a state
tax department. See Pub. 1220 for more information
regarding the Combined Federal/State Filing Program.
They are provided for your convenience only and need
not be completed for the IRS. Use the state information
boxes to report payments for up to two states. Keep the
information for each state separated by the dash line. If
you withheld state income tax on this payment, enter it in
box 14. In box 12, enter the abbreviated name of the
state, and in box 13, enter the payer's state identification
number. The state number is the payer's identification
number assigned by the individual state.

Box 6. Acquisition Premium

For a covered security acquired with acquisition premium,
enter the amount of premium amortization for the part of
the year the debt instrument was owned by the holder.
See Regulations sections 1.6045-1(n)(5) and 1.6049-9(c).
If you reported a net amount of OID in box 1, 8, or 11, as
applicable, leave this box blank. You may, but are not
required to, report the acquisition premium for a
tax-exempt obligation that is a covered security acquired
before January 1, 2017.

Box 7. Description

If a state tax department requires that you send them a
paper copy of this form, use Copy 1 to provide information
to the state tax department. Give Copy 2 to the recipient
for use in filing the recipient's state income tax return.

Enter the CUSIP number, if any. If there is no CUSIP
number, enter the abbreviation for the stock exchange,
the abbreviation for the issuer used by the stock
exchange, the coupon rate, and the year of maturity (for
example, NYSE XYZ 121/2 25). If the issuer of the
obligation is other than the payer, show the name of the
issuer.

Rules for WHFITs and WHMTs

If the OID attributable to a trust interest holder (TIH)
exceeds $10 for the calendar year, trustees and
middlemen must use Form 1099-OID to report both the
gross amount of OID (box 1) and interest (box 2) of the
WHFIT that is attributable to the TIH. If the trustee
provides WHFIT information using the safe harbor rules in
Regulations section 1.671-5(f)(1) or (g)(1), the trustee or
middleman must determine the amounts reported on
Form 1099-OID under Regulations section 1.671-5(f)(2)
or (g)(2), as appropriate.

Box 8. Original Issue Discount on U.S. Treasury
Obligations

Enter the OID on a U.S. Treasury obligation for the part of
the year it was owned by the record holder. Do not include
this amount in box 1. You may enter any qualified stated
interest on the Treasury obligation in box 2. The amount in
box 8 may be a negative number (for example, if a
Treasury Inflation Protected Security has a deflation
adjustment for the year).

Reporting OID for a WHMT. If a WHMT has a start-up
date before August 13, 1998, trustees and middlemen of
the WHMT are not required to report OID information. If
the WHMT has a start-up date on or after August 13,
1998, and on or before January 24, 2006, and the trustee
has attempted in good faith, but without success, to obtain
the historical information required to provide OID
information, no penalties will be imposed if the trustee and
middlemen of the WHMT do not provide OID information.
The trustee must provide a statement to middlemen
indicating that the trustee is not providing OID information
because the trustee has attempted, in good faith, to obtain
the information necessary to calculate OID but has been
unsuccessful. See Regulations section 1.671-5(m)(2).

If you make payment on a U.S. Treasury obligation on
which OID is reportable, enter your name, address, and
TIN on Forms 1099-OID and 1096, not those of the U.S.
Treasury Department or the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Box 9. Investment Expenses

For single-class REMICs only, see Box 9. Investment
Expenses under Rules for REMICs, FASITs, and Issuers
of CDOs, later.

Box 10. Bond Premium

For a taxable covered security acquired at a premium,
enter the amount of bond premium amortization allocable
to the interest paid during the tax year, unless you were
notified in writing that the holder did not want to amortize
bond premium under section 171. See Regulations
sections 1.6045-1(n)(5) and 1.6049-9(b). For a
tax-exempt covered security acquired at a premium, enter
the amount of bond premium amortization allocable to the
interest paid during the tax year. If you are required to
report bond premium amortization and you reported a net
amount of interest in box 2, leave this box blank.

Requirement to furnish a tax information statement
to the TIH. A tax information statement that includes the
information provided to the IRS on Form 1099-OID, as
well as additional information identified in Regulations
section 1.671-5(e), must be provided to TIHs. The written
tax information statement must be furnished to the TIH by
March 15. The amount of an item of a trust expense that
is attributable to a TIH must be included on the tax
information statement provided to the TIH and is not
required to be included in box 9 of Form 1099-OID.
For more filing requirements, see the current General
Instructions for Certain Information Returns.

Box 11. Tax-Exempt OID

For a tax-exempt obligation that is a covered security
acquired on or after January 1, 2017, enter the OID for the
part of the year it was owned by the record holder. You
may, but are not required to, report the OID for a
tax-exempt obligation that is a covered security acquired
before January 1, 2017.
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Rules for REMICs, FASITs, and Issuers of CDOs

interest or CDO holder identified on the form. The
statement must contain the information shown on Form
1099-OID, including the legend shown on Copy B of the
official Form 1099-OID, and an indication that these items
are being furnished to the IRS. The statement also must
show the information specified in Regulations section
1.6049-7(f)(2)(ii). In addition, the statement furnished by a
REMIC must show, for each calendar quarter, the
information specified in Regulations section 1.6049-7(f)
(3). Also see Regulations section 1.6049-7(f)(3)(ii) for
information that may be required to be reported to a real
estate investment trust (REIT) that holds a REMIC regular
interest.

These reporting rules apply only to FASITs in
existence on October 22, 2004, to the extent that
CAUTION regular interests issued by the FASIT before that
date continue to remain outstanding in accordance with
the original terms of issue.

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REMICs, holders of ownership interests in FASITs,
issuers of CDOs, and any broker or middleman who holds
as a nominee a REMIC or FASIT regular interest or CDO
must file Form 1099-OID. The form is used to report OID
of $10 or more accrued to a REMIC or FASIT regular
interest holder or to a holder of a CDO. Also use Form
1099-OID to report other interest accrued to a REMIC or
FASIT regular interest holder during the year or paid to a
holder of a CDO. You may use Form 1099-INT rather than
Form 1099-OID to report interest for an instrument issued
with OID if no OID is includible in the regular interest
holder's or CDO holder's income for the year.
You are not required to file or issue Form 1099-OID for
exempt recipients including, but not limited to, the
following.
• A corporation.
• A broker.
• A middleman/nominee.
• A financial institution.
• Any IRA, Archer MSA, Medicare Advantage MSA, or
HSA.
• A tax-exempt organization.
For additional exempt recipients, see Regulations
section 1.6049-7(c).

A single-class REMIC (as defined in Temporary
Regulations section 1.67-3T(a)(2)(ii)(B)) must include in
the statement the investment expenses paid or accrued
during each calendar quarter by the REMIC for which the
REMIC is allowed a deduction under section 212 and the
proportionate share of those investment expenses
allocated to the regular interest holder.
The statement must be furnished to holders by March
15. To meet the statement requirement, you may furnish a
copy of Form 1099-OID and a separate statement
containing the additional information to the REMIC or
FASIT regular interest or CDO holder.
For information about reporting income to REMIC
residual interest holders, see the instructions for
Schedule Q (Form 1066), Quarterly Notice to Residual
Interest Holder of REMIC Taxable Income or Net Loss
Allocation, in the separate Instructions for Form 1066,
available at IRS.gov/Form1066.

Box 1. Original Issue Discount
Report in box 1 the aggregate amount of OID includible in
the gross income of each REMIC or FASIT regular interest
or CDO holder for the period during the year for which the
return is made. No amount should be reported in box 8.

Form 8811 and Reporting by Brokers or
Middlemen
REMICs and issuers of CDOs also must file Form 8811,
Information Return for Real Estate Mortgage Investment
Conduits (REMICs) and Issuers of Collateralized Debt
Obligations, within 30 days after the start-up date of the
REMIC or issue date of a CDO. The IRS will use the
information on Forms 8811 to update Pub. 938, Real
Estate Mortgage Investment Conduits (REMICs)
Reporting Information, for use by certain brokers,
middlemen, corporations, and others specified in
Regulations section 1.6049-7(e)(4). Pub. 938 is available
at IRS.gov/Pub938.

Box 2. Other Periodic Interest
Report in box 2 any amount of interest, other than OID,
accrued to each REMIC or FASIT regular interest holder
or paid to each CDO holder. If you are a single-class
REMIC (as defined in Temporary Regulations section
1.67-3T(a)(2)(ii)(B)), increase the amount otherwise
reportable in box 2 by the regular interest holder's share of
investment expenses of the REMIC for the year.
Box 9. Investment Expenses
Enter the regular interest holder's pro rata share of
investment expenses.

For the requirements that a REMIC or CDO issuer or a
broker or middleman who holds a REMIC or FASIT
regular interest or a CDO furnish certain information on
request, see Regulations sections 1.6049-7(e) and
1.6049-7(f)(7).

Statements to Holders
For each Form 1099-OID you are required to file, you
must furnish a statement to the REMIC or FASIT regular

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