The Form 1099-INT, Interest Income skill extracts data from Forms 1099-INT, which are used to report interest paid in the course of a trade or business. For interest related to securities transactions, the information provided may be different for covered or non-covered transactions: · For covered securities that were acquired at a discount or premium, the payer must either report the net interest amount or separately report the market discount and premium amortization amounts on the Form 1099-INT.
For non-covered securities, the payer is not required to provide information to the taxpayer on any discount or premium. Also, it is solely the responsibility of the taxpayer to account for those amounts on their tax return.
The Form 1099-INT, Interest Income skill is a preview skill. It has been trained on a small document set and is intended to be used by citizen developers as a quick-start basis for processing Forms 1099-INT.