For information about e-filing, please see E-file Employment Tax Forms. You're required to file a separate Form for each quarter first quarter - January through March, second quarter - April through June, third quarter - July through September, fourth quarter - October through December.
Form is generally due by the last day of the month following the end of the quarter. For example, you're required to file Form by April 30 for wages you pay during the first quarter, January through March. If the due date for filing a return falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, you may file the return on the next business day. The term legal holiday means any legal holiday in the District of Columbia. Some employers with small payrolls, including government employers, may file an annual return, Form instead of Form each quarter, if you are eligible and properly so indicated on your Form SS-4, Application for an Employer Identification Number.
Form generally is due on January 31 of the following year. The purpose of Form is to reduce burden on small employers by allowing them to file one return per year, and in most cases pay the employment tax with the return. Employers aren't permitted to file Form unless they are notified by the IRS to do so. Employers required to file Form , who want to file Forms instead, must notify the IRS to request to file quarterly Forms and receive approval to do so.
See the Instructions for Form for more information. Employers who exceed the eligibility threshold must not file Form until the IRS notifies them that their filing requirement has been changed to Form Basic business information, such as business address and employer identification number or EIN. Taxable Social Security and Medicare wages for the quarter. If you use payroll software or accounting software , you should be able to retrieve the data you need for IRS Form Additionally, most employers are required to make employment tax deposits on a monthly or semi-weekly basis.
You should also be able to get information by looking at your payment history in EFTPS or at your business bank account statements. Photo credit: IRS. This is the most involved section of Form , largely due to the calculations involved on line 5. These lines will ask for:.
Line 1: Number of employees you paid for the quarter. Line 2: Total wages, tips and other compensation you paid for the quarter. Line 3: Federal income tax withheld from wages, tips and other compensation you paid for the quarter. Check the box in line 4 if the wages, tips and other compensation you paid isn't subject to Social Security and Medicare tax.
This won't apply to most businesses, so you can leave it blank. The most confusing section of Form is on lines 5a to 5d, where you calculate your taxable Social Security and Medicare wages.
Those decimals are a stand-in for the percentage of wages and tips that get deducted for Social Security and Medicare tax. The rate for Social Security tax is For Medicare taxes, the rate is 2. All wages and tips are taxable for Medicare purposes, without limit. To make sure your calculations are correct, you need to break down the wages by type for lines 5a and 5b i. Payroll tax credits are available to companies that engage in research and development in technology, science, medicine or related fields.
You can choose to receive a refund check or have the overpayment applied as a credit on your next tax return by checking one of the boxes next to line Schedule B breaks down your tax liability for each day of the quarter. A third-party designee might be your CPA, enrolled agent or tax advisor. If you work with a tax advisor or business accountant, you may want them to review the return as well. Department of the Treasury. You should be paying employment tax deposits either monthly or semi-weekly.
These deposits are often confusing to small-business owners because the IRS has different deadlines for paying tax deposits and filing Form Form has quarterly deadlines. However, most businesses should not wait until filing IRS Form to actually pay their employment taxes. The IRS has a pay-as-you-go system for paying employment taxes.
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IRS Notice provides the following example: Taxes in the lookback period are considered to be zero for a new employer. Deposits of employee taxes are due based on the following schedule: If payday is on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, deposits are due the following Wednesday. Leave a comment!
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