Beginning with the 2011 tax year, the IRS requires you to exclude from Form 1099-MISC any payments you made by credit card, debit card, gift card, or third-party payment network such as PayPal. (These payments are being reported by the card issuers and third-party payment networks on Form 1099-K.)
When you use check payments (in either Pay Bills or Write Checks) to record a vendor payment made with a credit card, debit card, or gift card, or using a third-party payment network such as PayPal, you should note the payment method in the check number field. QuickBooks recognizes, and automatically excludes from Form 1099-MISC, any check payment containing one of the following notations in the check number field (limited to 8 characters):
Debit
Debitcar
DBT
DBT card
DCard
Debit cd
Visa
Masterc
MC
MCard
Chase
Discover
Diners
PayPal
QuickBooks automatically excludes from Form 1099-MISC any bill payment made using the credit card payment method.