The IRS forms that are provided by the IRS Free of charge are CARBONLESS forms that are designed for hand written forms to be submitted to the IRS (for payers with small amount of recipients). These forms typically will have other copies B / C / D behind the Copy A so when you write on form Copy A the info will be pushed through to the other copies. (Any forms obtained directly from IRS will not be compatible with our software - You may obtain software compatible forms from your reseller/vendor - If you do not have one then you can use www.formstax.com).
Example IRS Form below:
As indicated with the Blue Border these forms have extension (perf) area to the left of the actual forms.
The 1096 transmittal size is 8 x 11.
Certain forms that are smaller then the standard letter size (8.5 x 11) will have added extensions (perfs) to be torn apart after printing. IRS regulation for the formatting of the forms are based on the actual forms image and the sizes of each boxes.
If the extensions (perfs) of the forms are not on the correct side of the paper, there may be printing issues with form data alignment since these IRS free forms are not compatible with the software.
Our software programs are designed with these extensions (perfs) to be on the right side of the forms as displayed in the image below: