I don’t know if you heard but Thursday the House passed a bill repealing the 2012 1099 “bookkeeper and accountant permanent employment job” act that would have required any business paying anyone over $600 (bestbuy, quiznos, taco bell, etc) to 1099 that business or individual. Businesses would have to file hundreds of 1099s and would probably have to increase their fees to absorb the additional costs (although if you use a credit card to pay for stuff, the reporting requirement falls to the credit card processor, not the business, so there was a partial solution.) Now we have to wait for the Senate to pass their version of the bill (which I believe is similar) which is part of the new FAA bill that should be passed soon. So one less worry in 2012 (I hope).