[Gunner]

If you have a proper accounting and records management system, it's a five minute job by someone competent to devise a report that will fill the 1099s out with the correct info. Your cost to generate them, even 5,000 of them, should be negligible. Mailing should be by far the highest percentage of the unit cost.

There are so many such "statements" needed in the course of any business that an additional one should not cost you "a bundle" to manage unless you're doing something very wrong.

I'm not saying this plethora of reports, statements, accounts, etc. is good or even necessary. Such things *are* a part of any business and it's well to be able to handle them efficiently, whether they're government-specified or not.