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WV/IT-105.1 
09/2022 

  West Virginia State Tax Division 
             
            2022 

            Electronic Media Specifications 

            1099 & W-2G 

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                                Table of Contents 

 1. What’s New                                                            Page 3 
 
 2. General Info / Contact info                                           Page 4    
         
 3. Record Format                                                         Page 5 
         
 4. MyTaxes                                                               Page 6 
 
 5. Importing 1099 & W-2G Files                                           Page 7  
         
 6. Manually Adding 1099 & W-2G Information                               Page 8 
         
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                                    New for 2022West Virginia can no longer accept CD ROM!  You must file your 1099 data using the upload 
        feature on our website:    https://mytaxes.wvtax.gov   (see page 6 for registration instructions) 

       1099 NEC form is supported in the e file transmission 
         
       WV/IT-103 Year-End Reconciliation and 1099 data is due January 31.    
         
       Any employer who uses a payroll service or is required to file a withholding return for 25 or more 
        employees must file electronically. 
         
       All files MUST contain the IT-103 reconciliation in the C record  (see below) 
             
       Failure to include required records will result in the submission being rejected. 
         
                                    Required C Record 
                                                  
Positions 508-748 specific to WV for transmission of the IT-103 Reconciliation 
  
 508        Record Identifier                    1      Required. Enter "C" 
 509-510  State Code                             2      Required. Enter "54" 
 511-517  Form Identification                    7      Required. Enter "WVIT103". Omit hyphen. 
 518-521  Tax Year                               4      Required. Enter "2022" 
 522-530  FEIN                                   9      Required. Numeric. Omit hyphen. 
 531-538  WV 8 digit account number              8      Required. Numeric. Omit hyphen.  
 539-550  First Quarter Tax Due                  12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 551-562  Second Quarter Tax Due                 12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 563-574  Third Quarter Tax Due                  12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 575-586  Fourth Quarter Tax Due                 12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 587-598  TOTAL Tax Due for the year             12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 599-610    Number Of Tax Statements Transmitted 12     Required. Numeric. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 611-622  Total Tax Withheld                     12     Required. Whole Dollars. Right Justify, Zero Fill 
 623-748  Filler                                 126    Zero or Blank Fill. 

  NOTE:  The money fields in this record differ from the standard record money fields. 
                              Round and use whole dollars only! 
                     Ex:  $950.75 = 951            DO N       OT  NTERE  95100                              

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                                     General Information 
                                                   
              1099S ANDW-2GS ARE REQUIREDONLY WHEN THEY REFLECTWEST VIRGINIA WITHHOLDING. 
         
All files submitted to the state of West Virginia MUST be in text (.txt) format. 
  
All files MUST contain record delimiters. 
         
ALL FORMS   -Transmitter “T” Record, Payer “A” Record, and Payee B” Record; 
Payment Year, Field Positions 2-5, must be updated with the four-digit reporting year (2022), unless 
reporting prior year data. 
 
Records and fields not specifically mentioned may be considered optional. It is your responsibility to 
resubmit corrected media in an acceptable format within 45 days. However, the original submission is 
considered a timely filing if it was postmarked by January 31.  You must keep a copy, or be able to 
reconstruct the data, for 5 years after the due date of the report. 

                                     Contact Information 
                                                   
                                          Mailing Address: 
                                 West Virginia State Tax Division 
                                          TAAD/ Withholding 
                                           PO Box 3943 
                                     Charleston, WV 25339-3943 
                                                   
                             Courier or Overnight Deliveries (ONLY): 
                                 West Virginia State Tax Division 
                                 Revenue Center / Withholding 
                                          1001 Lee Street East 
                                     Charleston, WV 25301-1725 
                                                   
    If you have any issues or questions, please contact:  Christine.D.Stephenson@wv.gov 
                                                   
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                               Record Format 

                               Character set must be ASCII. 
                      All non-numeric data must be uppercase. 
                     Record delimiter must be carriage return and line feed. 
                           All records must be 750 bytes in length. 
RECORD      RECORD   MEDIA                SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS 
 TYPE   DESCRIPTION  POSITIONS 
 T      TRANSMITTER  1-750                Follow IRS specifications 
            RECORD 
 A      PAYER RECORD 1-750                Follow IRS specifications 
 B      PAYEE RECORD 1-750                Follow IRS specifications 
 B      PAYEE RECORD 723-734   State Income Tax Withheld for Form 1099-MISC, 1099-R, 
                               1099 INT, 1099-G, 1099-DIV, 1099-NEC & W-2G. 
 C      END OF PAYER 508-748   The state specific information must be contained within.  
            RECORD             Other fields, follow IRS specifications 
 F          END OF   1-750     Follow IRS specifications. THIS RECORD INDICATES THE 
        TRANSMISSION           END OF FILE. IT MUST BE THE LAST RECORD ON THE 
                               FILE, APPEARING ONLY ONCE. NO DATA GETS 
                               PROCESSED AFTER THE CODE 'F' RECORD      

                               Record Delimiters 
                                           
 A record delimiter must follow each record in the file except for the last record. The record delimiter 
 must consist of two characters, and those characters must be carriage return and line feed (CR/LF). 
 Make sure each record is exactly 750 characters by adding spaces at the end as needed. The carriage 
 return character and the line feed character must be placed in positions 751 and 752, respectively. 
                                           
                   * DO NOT Place a record delimiter before the first record  
 
 * DO NOT Place more than one record delimiter i.e., more than one carriage return / line- feed 
                             combination, following a record   
 
            * DO NOT Place record delimiters after a field within a record.  
    
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MyTaxes provides a more secure environment to submit data files and requires less paperwork to 
process.  If you are not already registered for MyTaxes, when accessing https://mytaxes.wvtax.gov you 
will be required to complete the following steps: 

 ● Taxpayer Verification – This requires your Federal Tax ID Number, individual taxpayer ID number, 
   social security number or WV tax ID number.  (If you are unsure of your WV ID, contact Taxpayer 
   Services at 1-800-982-8297) 
 ●  You will choose a tax account type, the account number and your zip code. 
 ● Create Logon Information 
 ● Add Access to Accounts (Optional) 
 ● Once registered, you may request access to any or all your tax accounts that are available on 
   MyTaxes.  
    
  If you are a Payroll Service Provider and have not yet registered with WV please send a completed 
        page 1 of the business registration application to:   Christine.D.Stephenson@wv.gov 
                                                   
   ALL OTHER registration questions must contact Taxpayer Services Division at 1-800-982-8297 
                                                   
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                          Importing 1099 & W-2G Files 
                                                 
Log into MyTaxes    
 
 ●      Select the Submit 1099 hyperlink (to the right) 
 ●      Select the IMPORT button (top right corner) 
 ●      Select Browse to locate your 1099 file 
 ●      Choose the file you want to import, select Open 
 ●      Select IMPORT button – click only once as large files may take a minute to import.  Only one file 
        may be imported per submission 
 ●      Click NEXT (lower right) to view the data on the screens  
 ●      Once you’ve viewed all the data, select SUBMIT 
 ●      Enter your password and OK 

  NOTE: If there are errors detected, you will be unable to proceed until they are resolved.  Any 
               corrections needed must be made within the actual file, not on screen.   
                          
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                      Manually Adding 1099 & W-2G Information 
                                                   
 ●      Select the Submit 1099 hyperlink (to the right) 
 ●      under Data Source select Manual Input from the drop down menu  
 ●      Enter 4 digit Tax Year, select NEXT (bottom right) 
 ●      Payer record will be prepopulated with your business name/address information as you are 
        registered with us, select NEXT (bottom right) 
 ●      Add Employees by selecting blue hyperlink Add A Record 
 ●      Complete the required fields (name, address, etc.) and check the box for the 1099 types you 
        will be entering for this employee, click ADD 
 ●      If you have more employees to enter, click the Add A Record hyperlink and complete the above 
        steps.  NOTE:  At this point you may choose to go to the next screen and enter wage data on the 
        1099 form for this employee OR add all employee records at once, then move through the 1099 
        input at once.  If you choose to enter each employee separately, you can use the chevrons at the 
        top to toggle back and forth between screens. 
 ●      Once complete adding employees, select NEXT 
 ●      The payer/employer data is pre populated 
 ●      Enter the payee/employee SSN and remaining required fields on the 1099 
 ●      Select NEXT 
 ●      You will get a final count of records and 1099 types at the end 
 ●      Select Submit (bottom right)  
 ●      Enter your password, select OK 
 ●      you will receive a confirmation number 

NOTE:  You may SAVE at any point during entry and return later to Edit Submission, then Submit. 

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