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Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the reporting threshold for most 1099 payments jumps from $600 to $2,000 starting 2026, the first change since the 1950s. The exceptions that stayed put are the ones that will trip people up.
Most finance teams treat the month-end close as a two-week ordeal. We have cut it to four days, not by cutting corners, but by removing the ones that were never necessary.
Some back-office providers treat data confidentiality as a selling point. We treat it as a baseline obligation: the minimum required to do this work responsibly.
The salary line is only the beginning. When you add compliance overhead, turnover risk, systems cost, and management attention, in-house back-office operations cost significantly more than most finance leaders realise.
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