i decided to peek at this post because i guess i feel that people deserve help on important stuff no matter what.

our accountant has always given us two options on this:

1. if you know the income sent to you by each and every company, he declares for each company separately.

2. if you DON'T know the income of every single company that paid you, you can declare your total income easily if you deposited all the checks into your business bank account. one year we had to do this because we had been careless with our ccbill and other similar income, foolishly thinking we would get 1099's. for this to work, make sure you deposit only your business checks into that bank account. otherwise it gets harder.

best to have a tax man or accountant do your taxes if they're complex. then the next year, you can sort of copy what he/she did - or just go back to your tax person or accountant every year.

btw, one year i phoned the irs and had them read me a list of all the companies who reported our income to them. turned out the irs had 4 companies who reported paying us to them but who had not sent us the necessary paperwork. i wrote the totals and companies and our accountant did the rest.