# IRIS

> IRIS — The IRS's system for filing Forms 1099 electronically, including a free web portal that needs an IRIS Transmitter Control Code. Electronic filing is required once a filer has 10 or more information returns in a year.

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**What is iris?** In accounting, IRIS means the IRS's system for filing Forms 1099 electronically, including a free web portal that needs an IRIS Transmitter Control Code. Electronic filing is required once a filer has 10 or more information returns in a year.

## Also known as

- Information Returns Intake System

## Words this system refuses for it

- FIRE (the older system)

- **Category:** Payables
- **Specified in:** [Lexicon](https://lopifi.com/md/docs/domain/11-lexicon)